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Interactive elements and progressive enhancement

Interactive elements and progressive enhancement

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Interactive elements and progressive enhancement

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- In this chapter, I've been talking a lot about HTML and CSS, so at this point, you're probably wondering where interactive JavaScripts come in. That will be now, through progressive enhancement. If we split a website into its individual elements, we get a structure where the markup is the foundation, referenced elements like images and iframes are next, then CSS for styling, and interactive JavaScripts are the frosting on top. In most sites this is the case. JavaScripts mainly serve a visual purpose, adding sliders, tabs, and other interactive features that from a content perspective, are unnecessary. For these types of JavaScripts, progressive enhancements is the only way to go. In web design there are two schools of thought when it comes to browser support, graceful degradation and progressive enhancement. The names are pretty self-explanatory. Graceful degradation means the site looks and functions okay in older…

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