Progressive Enhancement vs Mobile First Design
Developers should use Progressive Enhancement when building websites or applications that need to reach a broad audience, including users on older browsers, low-bandwidth connections, or assistive technologies meets developers should use mobile first design when creating modern web applications, especially for consumer-facing sites with significant mobile traffic, as it improves performance, accessibility, and user experience on smartphones. Here's our take.
Progressive Enhancement
Developers should use Progressive Enhancement when building websites or applications that need to reach a broad audience, including users on older browsers, low-bandwidth connections, or assistive technologies
Progressive Enhancement
Nice PickDevelopers should use Progressive Enhancement when building websites or applications that need to reach a broad audience, including users on older browsers, low-bandwidth connections, or assistive technologies
Pros
- +It's crucial for ensuring accessibility compliance, improving SEO through semantic HTML, and creating robust applications that degrade gracefully when advanced features fail
- +Related to: semantic-html, responsive-web-design
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
Mobile First Design
Developers should use Mobile First Design when creating modern web applications, especially for consumer-facing sites with significant mobile traffic, as it improves performance, accessibility, and user experience on smartphones
Pros
- +It forces prioritization of essential features, reduces unnecessary elements, and aligns with Google's mobile-first indexing for better SEO
- +Related to: responsive-web-design, css-media-queries
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
The Verdict
Use Progressive Enhancement if: You want it's crucial for ensuring accessibility compliance, improving seo through semantic html, and creating robust applications that degrade gracefully when advanced features fail and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.
Use Mobile First Design if: You prioritize it forces prioritization of essential features, reduces unnecessary elements, and aligns with google's mobile-first indexing for better seo over what Progressive Enhancement offers.
Developers should use Progressive Enhancement when building websites or applications that need to reach a broad audience, including users on older browsers, low-bandwidth connections, or assistive technologies
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