Hypermedia and Browser Enhancement

Front end development these days is dominated by large JavaScript client side frameworks. There are plenty of good reasons for that, but it can be very inefficient for many use cases, and the framework engineering has become extremely complex. In this article, I want to explore a different...

The future of loading CSS

Chrome is intending to change the behaviour of , which will be noticeable when it appears within . The impact and benefits of this aren't clear from the blink-dev post, so I wanted to go into detail here. Update: This is now in Chrome Canary. The current state of loading CSS …content… CSS blocks...

Progressive enhancement is faster

Progressive enhancement has become a bit of a hot topic recently, most recently with Tom Dale conclusively showing it to be a futile act, but only by misrepresenting what progressive enhancement is and what its benefits are. You shouldn't cater to those who have deliberately disabled JavaScript...

Progressive enhancement is still important

About 5 years ago it felt like the progressive enhancement battle had been won, but after watching the reactions to Nicholas Zakas' "Enough with the JavaScript already" it seems all the old arguments are back with reinforcements. Well, I'm wearing my angry-pants and I'm ready for a jog down ranty...