Enhancing a comment form: From basic to custom error message to BackgroundSync | justmarkup

Polishing your typography with line height units | WebKit

I should be using the lh and rlh units more enough—they’re supported across the board!

A pragmatic browser support strategy | Go Make Things

1. Basic functionality should work on any device that can access the web.
2. Extras and flourishes are treated as progressive enhancements for modern devices.
3. The UI can look different and even clunky on older devices and browsers, as long as it doesn’t break rule #1.

Progressive enhancement brings everyone in - The History of the Web

This is a great history of the idea of progressive enhancement:

It is an idea that has been lasting and enduring for two decades, and will continue.

Futuristic Progressive Enhancement - Jim Nielsen’s Blog

We’re all tired of: write some code, come back to it in six months, try to make it do more, and find the whole project is broken until you upgrade everything.

Progressive enhancement allows you to do the opposite: write some code, come back to it in six months, and it’s doing more than the day you wrote it!

12 Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades | Modern CSS Solutions

I love how straightforward these bits of CSS are—time to rip out some of those old complicated hacks and workarounds!