Core Principles
Progressive Enhancement consists of the following core principles:
- basic content should be accessible to all web browsers
- basic functionality should be accessible to all web browsers
- sparse, semantic markup contains all content
- enhanced layout is provided by externally linked CSS
- enhanced behavior is provided by unobtrusive, externally linked JavaScript
- end-user web browser preferences are respected
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