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I have heard the term progressive enhancement used much earlier than that- probably by at least 5 years. In ye olden days, people used it to mean that websites
by zdragnar 6y ago
I have heard the term progressive enhancement used much earlier than that- probably by at least 5 years.
In ye olden days, people used it to mean that websites should be able to work without javascript at all, and not overly rely on new CSS features.
At the time we were making websites for customers that cared about IE6 support. The notion of a "web app" was a dream that most people would have considered a nightmare, given how inconsistently everything was implemented at the time.
- e12e 6y agoWikipedia claims it was coined as recently as 2003: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement#History https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement#Hist... Sounds fairly recent to me (so long after first versions of CSS and js) - but also not entirely unreasonable. 2015 is certainly much too recent.
- tobr 6y agoThe point is that Progressive web app takes it’s first word from Progressive enhancement. For that to be possible the chronology must be that PE predates PWA. The terms are not synonymous.