progressive-enhancement

Javascript not enabled

I have been developing web applications for a few years now. One of the issues that I face is having to develop web apps where javascript is not enabled or not available. I know this was a issue a few year back but am curious to know what other web designers, developers think about this issue? Is that still an issue? The reason I am a...

Progressive enhancement / Graceful degradation and web applications

Hello, I am building a web application that uses a lot of Javascript. Now I am wondering does it make sense to make the application work without Javascript? I can understand for normal websites that you want to make sure everybody can use it but can you say the same of complex web applications? I checked out some big web apps and it se...

Highlighting active panel in CSS without JavaScript

I'm building something similar to this - http://www.impressivewebs.com/demo-files/content-switcher/content-switcher.html I wondered if anyone had any ideas as to how I can show the current panel in the navigation WITHOUT using JavaScript - pure CSS. I'm fairly confidant it's not possible but I thought I'd ask anyway. Just to clarify...

Best practices doing big file upload on the web with progressive enhancement.

I'm building an HTML form with which the user should be able to upload big files up to ~100MB. My users could be coming from anywhere so I can't count on a broadband connection, modern browser or availability of Javascript/Flash. For the users who do have these "extras" I'd like to offer a better experience like some form of feedback on...