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
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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 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