I understand wikipedia isn't an absolute source, it's a summary of opinions and research. And what follows is my own opinion, though I'm linking to wikipedia f

I understand wikipedia isn't an absolute source, it's a summary of opinions and research. And what follows is my own opinion, though I'm linking to wikipedia for background and context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app I would draw attention to this particular line: "Progressive - Work for every user, regardless of browser choice because they’re built with progressive enhancement as a core tenet." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement Here's why I like this - "progressive" isn't just a nice, modern sounding word, the way "rad" or "radical" doesn't actually mean "nifty" or "cool", even if it came to be used that way in slang. Progressive has a very specific meaning, which is that it was built through progressive enhancement. Progressive enhancement, to me[1], is a very different principle from the app that is built as a javascript heavy front end, even if that technology gracefully degrades to plain html ("graceful degradation"). Progressive enhancement is just one strategy for achieving graceful degradation (which might not be the primary motivation, it can be a by-product). You work from content, start with the most basic presentation, and add technologies progressively, CSS, JavaScript, and so forth. I think "progressive" is one of those great sounding words that has come to mean "an excellent and forward looking web experience". This is what happens when you use a great sounding word to describe a more narrow principle or technique (re, RIP, "Agile"). In this case, it was a reasonable use of the word - progressive can mean "in stages" rather than "forward thinking", but there is an ambiguity here, and I think this recent post is a result of that ambiguity. [1] I say "to me" here not because this is necessarily my own personal opinion, but because I'm not 100% this is the intended meaning. I may follow those reference links in the wikipedia article and see what was meant. I think this is the case (built in stages, progressively), but I have to qualify it here because I'm not sure.