∞ Graceful degradation

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Smashing Magazine:

Frequently, when I discuss CSS3 with other developers, the issue of stubborn clients comes up. They tell me that even though they personally don’t think a website should look the same in all browsers and they’re eager to try all of these new techniques, their clients insist that their website should look the same, so the developers are stuck with the same Web development techniques that we used five to ten years ago. Their clients just don’t “get” graceful degradation.

When we were doing the redesign for The Loop last summer, I told Phil that I don’t care about old browsers. Modern browsers only.


  • http://twitter.com/VGISoftware Daniel Swanson

    I like your attitude about old browsers, Jim.

    In my future software, I also want to rather quickly ignore older iOS versions when it prevents any new functionalities of current versions.

  • http://twitter.com/aaronmb Aaron Benedict

    This explains why I can’t get Netscape 1.0 to view The Loop. Damn you 
    Dalrymple! This is Draconian!

  • http://twitter.com/holaMau Mau Sandoval

    The problem is that there are quite a few differences even among modern browsers… Worse: issues with same browsers but different platforms.

    The joy.