A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

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Authors: J: Scott Jehl

Scott Jehl

Scott Jehl is a designer at Filament Group, a design firm in Boston, MA that specializes in web application design and development. Scott also runs WriteMaps, a tool for planning web sites, and leads the design team at jQuery.

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Test-Driven Progressive Enhancement

Issue 268September 23, 2008

Starting with semantic HTML, and layering enhancements using JavaScript and CSS, is supposed to create good experiences for all. Alas, enhancements still find their way to aging browsers and under-featured mobile devices that don't parse them properly. What's a developer to do? Scott Jehl makes the case for capabilities testing.