Be progressive
The other week I had a long discussion over a few beers at the pub about the use of web components and how ridiculous it was to build things progressively now. I’m all with Jeremy on this one, and I’m glad he’s still really pushing the progressive approach…. and so should you.
Treating JavaScript support in “the browser” as a known quantity is as much of a consensual hallucination as deciding that all viewports are 960 pixels wide. Even that phrasing—”the browser”—shows a framing that’s at odds with the reality of developing for the web; we don’t have to think about “the browser”, we have to think about browsers:
An excerpt from Be progressive
