Progressive Enhancement - Support and Adoption

Support and Adoption

• Jim Wilkinson created a page for Progressive Enhancement Wiki to collect some tricks and tips and to explain the overall strategy.
• Designers such as Jeremy Keith have shown how the approach can be used harmoniously with still other approaches to modern Web design (such as Ajax) to provide flexible, but powerful, user experiences.
• Others, including Dave Shea, have helped to spread the adoption of the term to refer to CSS-based design strategies.
• Organizations such as the Web Standards Project, which was behind the creation of Acid2 and Acid3 tests, have embraced PE as a basis for their educational efforts.
• In 2006 Nate Koechley at Yahoo! made extensive reference to PE in his own approach to Web design and browser support, Graded Browser Support (GBS).
• Steve Chipman at AOL has referred to PE (by DOM scripting) as a basis for his Web design strategy.
• David Artz, leader of the AOL Optimization team, developed a suite of Accessible Rendering Technologies, and invented a technique for disassembly of the “enhancement” on the fly, saving the user's preference.
• Chris Heilmann discussed the importance of targeted delivery of CSS so that each browser only gets the content (and enhancements) it can handle.
• Scott Jehl of Filament Group introduced "Test-Driven Progressive Enhancement" on A List Apart in 2008. The article proposes testing browser capabilities (rather than detecting the user-agent and inferring capabilities) before applying enhancements, to ensure a usable experience to the largest audience possible.
• Wt is an open-source server-side web application framework which transparently implements progressive enhancement during its bootstrap, progressing from plain HTML to full Ajax.