PUBLIC MARKS from Spone with tag "progressive enhancement"

There seems to be a common belief among front-end developers that progressive enhancement is either old fashioned or has simply been replaced by single page applications. This is a problem of perception. We’d like to explain why we use progressive enhancement to build GOV.UK.

With all our new work we're trying to make everything degrade much more gracefully if you don't have Javascript enabled. Normally using the Google Maps API if a user doesn't have Javascript enabled, they just won't see a map. Working with Natalie from Clearleft I think we came up with a pretty good solution that uses progressive enhancement to ensure everyone gets a map, even without JS.