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Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience, and simplifies coding and testing as well. Whether users are viewing your sites on an iPhone, the latest and greatest high-end system, or even hearing them on a screen-reader, their experience should be easy to understand and use, and as fully-featured and functional as possible.
Designing with Progressive Enhancement will show you how. It’s both a practical guide to understanding the principles and benefits of progressive enhancement, and a detailed exploration of examples that will teach you—whether you’re a designer or a developer—how, where, and when to implement the specific coding and scripting approaches that embody progressive enhancement.
In this book, you’ll learn:
Designing with Progressive Enhancement will show you how. It’s both a practical guide to understanding the principles and benefits of progressive enhancement, and a detailed exploration of examples that will teach you—whether you’re a designer or a developer—how, where, and when to implement the specific coding and scripting approaches that embody progressive enhancement.
In this book, you’ll learn:
- Why common coding approaches leave users behind, and how progressive enhancement is a more inclusive and accessible alternative
- How to analyze complex interface designs, see the underlying semantic HTML experience that will work everywhere, and layer on advanced enhancements safely
- A unique browser capabilities testing suite that helps deliver enhancements only to devices that can handle them
- Real-world best practices for coding HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to work with progressive enhancement, and cases where forward-looking HTML5 and CSS3 techniques can be applied effectively today
- How to factor in accessibility features like WAI-ARIA and keyboard support to ensure universal access
- Detailed techniques to transform semantic HTML into interactive components like sliders, tabs, tree controls, and charts, along with downloadable jQuery-based widgets to apply directly in your projects
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Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience, and simplifies coding and testing as well. Whether users are viewing your sites on an iPhone, the latest and greatest high-end system, or even hearing them on a screen-reader, their experience should be easy to understand and use, and as fully-featured and functional as possible.
Designing with Progressive Enhancement will show you how. It’s both a practical guide to understanding the principles and benefits of progressive enhancement, and a detailed exploration of examples that will teach you—whether you’re a designer or a developer—how, where, and when to implement the specific coding and scripting approaches that embody progressive enhancement.
In this book, you’ll learn:
Designing with Progressive Enhancement will show you how. It’s both a practical guide to understanding the principles and benefits of progressive enhancement, and a detailed exploration of examples that will teach you—whether you’re a designer or a developer—how, where, and when to implement the specific coding and scripting approaches that embody progressive enhancement.
In this book, you’ll learn:
- Why common coding approaches leave users behind, and how progressive enhancement is a more inclusive and accessible alternative
- How to analyze complex interface designs, see the underlying semantic HTML experience that will work everywhere, and layer on advanced enhancements safely
- A unique browser capabilities testing suite that helps deliver enhancements only to devices that can handle them
- Real-world best practices for coding HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to work with progressive enhancement, and cases where forward-looking HTML5 and CSS3 techniques can be applied effectively today
- How to factor in accessibility features like WAI-ARIA and keyboard support to ensure universal access
- Detailed techniques to transform semantic HTML into interactive components like sliders, tabs, tree controls, and charts, along with downloadable jQuery-based widgets to apply directly in your projects
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Read and implement with caution
5 Jun 2010
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This book is easy to read and the fact that the website provides the examples and code is fabulous. The progressive enhancement approach should be used by everyone. However, make sure to test these implementations before integrating these solutions into your project. Most of the solutions rely on role="application" which is currently problematic for screen readers in particular. This role will hand over keyboard control to the application, leaving the screen reader user unable to use their standard web reading/interacting keyboard controls. This is a big problem for this user group unless you are also willing and able to implement an API. The solutions can also be problematic for low vision users who use their own color combination by changing settings in their browser and/or operating system. For example, visual cues indicating the presence of a drop-down component tend to go missing when the color settings are changed. I think there needs to be quite a bit more progress in regard to appropriate support by assistive technologies before some of these techniques should be used.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Write less, do more with Progressive Enhancement
11 April 2010
Format:Paperback
I highly recommend this book to anyone, at any level of web design skills.
I'm new to jQuery, and wanted the best book to get up and running quickly with it. This book caught my eye when I saw that Filament Group had contributed Themeroller to jQuery UI. I was sold when I saw how cleanly the book's site displayed on my Droid.
Using the book, I was able to quickly convert an ancient website into a beautiful jQuery-driven site, that thrilled my clients.
I came to this book having learned graceful degradation from Jeremy Keith's DOM Scripting. Progressive Enhancement starts there, and takes design to a new level.
The book Designing with Progressive Enhancement combines an analysis philosophy with real-world examples and code samples, to produce well-stuctured pages that are ARIA compliant, and will display as well as possible in any browser.
I'm new to jQuery, and wanted the best book to get up and running quickly with it. This book caught my eye when I saw that Filament Group had contributed Themeroller to jQuery UI. I was sold when I saw how cleanly the book's site displayed on my Droid.
Using the book, I was able to quickly convert an ancient website into a beautiful jQuery-driven site, that thrilled my clients.
I came to this book having learned graceful degradation from Jeremy Keith's DOM Scripting. Progressive Enhancement starts there, and takes design to a new level.
The book Designing with Progressive Enhancement combines an analysis philosophy with real-world examples and code samples, to produce well-stuctured pages that are ARIA compliant, and will display as well as possible in any browser.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Essential reading for builders of web applications
21 Mar 2010
Format:Paperback
While even someone working on relatively simple websites will benefit from reading this book, Designing with Progressive Enhancement is most useful for those developing application-like sites with rich user interaction. The authors present a rigorous, systematic approach to delivering highly functional sites to the broadest possible range of users - from mobile browsers to screen readers. Besides just offering their methodology, however, they also provide a number of concrete, practical techniques and downloadable, ready-to-use scripts.
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