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Dimitry wrote:

Jun 09, 2008
Web development

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Progressive Enhancement vs. Graceful Degradation

Here’s my quick view on the two strategies:

In the words of Agent Jay:

Old and busted: pages and technologies that work for older browsers

New hotness: think AJAX

Both strategies have the same end goal: provide support for the widest variety of user agents, but have opposite approaches of doing so.

More reading

This is a quick high level overview, so read below for more information and examples:

1 Comment

Joel
2 months ago

Heh – I actually discussed this at the Google Developer Day with the guy at the helm of the Gears project. Was more wrt GWT but it was interesting nonetheless.

Your image sums up exactly my thoughts on the words (and kinda how one approaches it – hence I prefer Progressive Enhancement, but that’s just me o=))

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