Re: Re: phpsadness - P.C. shmee seee.

On 6 June 2011 01:44, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: > On 11-06-05 07:28 PM, Richard Quadling wrote: >> There is another approach. Regressive Enhancement. >> >> Essentially, create your site with all the bells and whistles enabled. >> Make full use of all / any standards compliant feature. >> >> For browsers not capable of supporting that, use emulation techniques. >> >> Sitepoint have a blog about this technique : >> >> >> http://blogs.sitepoint.com/regressive-enhancement-with-modernizr-and-yepnope/ÐS9…4r«ˆÌö)Ÿ°¹ >> > > From my cursory read... regressive enhancement would need to rely on > progressive enhancement to work :) If there's no JavaScript to do the > lifting, then how can you regress? > > An interesting read all the same. It's kind of like the compatibility layer > PEAR releases for older versions of PHP so they have access to newer > functions and stuff but implemented in PHP rather than C. > > Cheers, > Rob. If you were to start with a full bells and whistles HTML5/CSS3 site, then you would already have an issue with very very old and / or non visual browsers I think. If they don't have JS, then the level of FOOBAR is going to be even greater. So. Interesting but maybe useless. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend : PHPDoc @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY : bit.ly/lFnVea