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Tips&Tricks for the modern day web designer

Use progressive enhancement instead of graceful degradation

Submitted by: WebD&D on March 24, 2010.

It can be said that both progressive enhancement and graceful degradation try to do the same thing: keep our products useful to every user. Progressive enhancement is a more sophisticated and at the same time stable way of assuring that but it takes more time and effort. Graceful degradation can be used more easily as a patch for an already existing product; it means harder maintenance later on, but requires less initial work.

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