Welcome to the Web Book of Progressive Enhancement

If you want to build a fully standards compliant web 2.0 site, in a completely modular approach, that embraces many technologies, is functional in all user agents (web browsing devices), from the very first step, progressively right up to the final step, with offerings of advise and best practices throughout the journey, then this is the book for you.

Recommended Audience

There are a number of reasons why you might want to read this web book about progressive enhancement. Take a look at the listed items below to see if you fit into one of the categories of readers, that I considered, may benefit from reading this book.

• This is, or very nearly is, the first time you have considered web development and you want to learn how to do things, right off the bat, correctly and in a progressive manner.
• Experience has been gained in some technologies but you want to learn how they all fit together, plus the need to fill gaps in your knowledge.
• You have one or more developments under your belt but you are now concerned that much of what you have done does not follow web standards.
• The word 'Unobtrusive' has been banded around the development community lately and you would like to find out more about unobtrusive structure, accessibility, presentation and behaviour, which will leave your markup semantic, light-weight and clean.
• The acronym DRY might have attracted your attention and you would like to design fully modular, easy to maintain and extendable web sites.
• You develop software that is designed as a tool that allows its users to build web sites and you want to ensure it has all of the correct features to get the job done by always outputting web standards compliant code.
• You are the vendor of a user agent and you want to check the device does the right thing by adhering to web standards.
• You have a lot of experience and would like to assist me to make this web book of progressive enhancement the definitive guide for web development.
• You're just plain curious and want to see what all the fuss is about.

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