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Gov.UK had a good article a while back (appeared on HN) where they pointed out the importance of designing for no JS. All official gov.uk sites that I'm aware o
by g_p 6y ago
Gov.UK had a good article a while back (appeared on HN) where they pointed out the importance of designing for no JS. All official gov.uk sites that I'm aware of will work without JavaScript.
They had an analysis showing how many % of their visits had broken JS support and therefore the need to build for the lowest common denominator.
- gm3dmo 6y agohttps://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressi... When a team builds a service using the service manual as a guide so many things become so much easier. Need to explain something to a non technical manager? The service manual has got you covered: > Progressive enhancement is a way of building websites and applications. It’s based on the idea that you should start by making your page work with just HTML, before adding anything else like Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript.
- g_p 6y agoThat's the one, progressive enhancement. A great principle, and nice to see they even think about Lynx accessing the sites [0] The post I was thinking about with the analysis of why JS/CSS shouldn't be assumed to work was [1]. [0] https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/19/why-we-use-progressive-enhancement-to-build-gov-uk/ https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/19/why-we-use-progres... [1] https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missing-out-on-javascript-enhancement/ https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missi...