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Gracefully degrading

StopDesign is a superb example of a site that degrades gracefully for Netscape 4, thanks to a carefully crafted basic stylesheet. Doug discusses the necessity of including a browser upgrade message and some of the different approaches used around the ’net.

Posted 19th December 2002 at 4:23 pm

This is Gracefully degrading by Simon Willison, posted on 19th December 2002.

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Browser upgrade messages that are served to all browsers are just evil. They're read by screenreaders, viewed by perfectly standards-compliant text-only users, sometimes get copied in IE when the user isn't expecting it, come up in search engine results, and are generally crap. The only good ones imo are served *directly* to specific browsers, like NS4.
Tom Gilder - 20th December 2002 11:02 - #

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