Adaptive Web Design
Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement
by Aaron Gustafson · first published 2011
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The web is an ever-changing medium whose scope, application, audience and platform continue to grow on a daily basis. If you’ve worked on the web for any amount of time, you’ve likely heard or even used the term “progressive enhancement.” Since the term’s inception, it has been considered a best practice for approaching web design. But what is it really? And how do we reconcile its meaning with the rapid evolution of the languages and browsers we rely on to do our jobs? In this brief book, Aaron Gustafson chronicles the origins of progressive enhancement, its philosophy, and mechanisms, and
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"Adaptive Web Design" by Gustafson. This is how the Web _should_ be made. The Network one by Ilya Gregorik. There's just not a lot of other material that covers this and certainly not this thoroughly. This one is probably…
on “Ask HN: Name 3-5 books that had the most impact on your career and knowledge?” ↗The first is "Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement, 2nd Edition" by Aaron Gustafson. This is the greatest resource of "stuff they forgot to tell you" when you learn web development that I have ever…
on “High Performance Browser Networking” ↗Adaptive Web Design is the most important book in the field that not many people have read. If there was one book I could force everyone to read that would make the whole field better, it would be that one.
on “Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?” ↗It's nice... and also very wrong, if you take the initial definition of adaptive web design! Adaptive web design as introduced by Aaron Gustafson in the "Adaptive Web Design" book has little to do with layout design, and everything to do with progressive enhancement and adapting the website's…
on “Use this to demonstrate Adaptive, Responsive, Static and Liquid ” ↗