Beyond progressive enhancement

Originally presented by Andy Clarke at Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007
Beyond progressive enhancement Andy Clarke is a digital designer, speaker, and writer whose designs have helped companies around the world to increase their sales pipeline and revenue, and charities to increase donations. He founded Stuff & Nonsense and has consulted and designed for clients including Disney Store UK, Fairfax Media, Home Office (UK), Greenpeace, ISO, SAP, STV, SunLife, WIPO, and WWF. He works on creative website and digital product designs and provides ongoing creative direction. He coaches agencies and mentors designers on dealing with clients, and delivering creative projects. If you’re looking to design better digital products and websites, develop a design system or style guide, or want to understand how design can help your business, you should talk to him. Stuff & Nonsense Ltd. Eversleigh, Lon Capel, Gwaenysgor, Flintshire, LL18 6EJ, UK For work enquiries go to stuffandnonsense.co.uk or call +44 (0)1745 851848

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 Portrait by Patrick Lauke

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 Beyond beyond progressive enhancement http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/downloads/highlandfling.zip - andy clarke

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 Progressive enhancement presents a viable  approach by enabling the delivery of information  as demanded by the users, while embracing  accessibility, future compatibility, and  determining user experience based on the  capabilities of new devices. Triangle TechJournal, September 2003 http://hesketh.com/publications/progressive_enhancement_paving_way_for_future.html
progressive enhancement

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 Progressive rock acts often combine rock formats  with elements of classical music, or sometimes  with styles such as jazz, usually rejecting norms,  and instead utilizing relatively uncommon  musical structures and ideas.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock progressive rock

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 ‐ preposition 1.  on, at, or to the farther side of 2.  farther on than; more distant than 3.  superior to; surpassing; above http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/beyond beyond

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 ‐ verb (used with object) 1.  to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify 2.  to raise the value or price of http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/progressive enhancement

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 ‐ adjective continuously increasing in extent  or severity, as a disease http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/progressive 12 results for: progressive

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 ‐ adjective favoring or advocating progress, change,  improvement, or reform, as opposed to  wishing to maintain things as they are http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/progressive progressive

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 ‐ adjective making progress toward better conditions;  employing or advocating more enlightened or  liberal ideas, new or experimental methods,  etc.: a progressive community http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/progressive progressive

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 ‐ adjective going forward or onward; passing successively  from one member of a series to the next;  proceeding step by step http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/progressive progressive

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 ‐ noun a person who is progressive or who favors  progress or reform http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/progressive a progressive

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 While I understand that for many, learning  standards based development is difficult,  particularly for creative people who have not  been required to work with code before, I  believe that the time has now passed for those  working with old fashioned methods to be called  web professionals. http://accessify.com/2005/11/interview‐with‐andy‐clarke‐aka.php
Accessibility, the gloves come off

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 “As proposed by Andy Clarke in his blog [1], the  'column‐rule‐image' property has been added  to the spec. The examples are: body { column‐rule‐image : url(rule.png); } body { column‐rule‐image : url(rule.png) repeat‐x 0 0; }” Håkon Wium Lie. CTO Opera Software, W3C CSS3 Working Group CSS3 Multi‐column module

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 Illustrations by Holly Lloyd

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 Stuff and Nonsense Ltd. will test these templates in  current versions of all major browsers including  those made by Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla and  Opera. Stuff and Nonsense Ltd. will also test to  ensure that these templates will visually appear to  be ‘similar’, albeit not identical in Microsoft  Internet Explorer 6 for Windows. contract

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 ... will not test these templates in old or abandoned  browsers, for example Microsoft Internet Explorer 5  or 5.5 for Windows or Mac, previous versions of  Apple’s Safari, Mozilla Firefox or Opera unless  otherwise specified.  Testing and the writing additional code for these  browsers will be charged at the daily rate. contract

Beyond Progressive Enhancement The Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007 Beyond beyond progressive enhancement http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/downloads/highlandfling.zip - andy clarke

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Originally presented by Andy Clarke at Highland Fling, Edinburgh, 2007