Progressive Enhancement Is A Team Sport
The Sparkbox team shares multiple perspectives on the importance of Progressive Enhancement for today’s web.
Written by Ben Callahan
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Respect
Ben’s contribution to The Shift—a reflection on one small way to help make the Web better.
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The Sum of the Parts
Building sites to work at any viewport width means we must embrace changing methods to communicate priority across those widths. Atomic design gives us a solid approach to designing the elements that make up our system, but these elements must also be considered in the context in which they’ll be experienced. At Sparkbox, we try to burn the candle at both ends by making progress on the whole as well as on the parts.
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Dissecting Design
We’ve long dreamt of a time when we could shed ourselves of the shackles of pixel-pushing to embrace a more idealistic way of working—designing in the browser. Many have tried and many have failed, but it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. In this article, Ben dissects the design process to explore which tools are the most helpful for certain parts of the web design process.
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Group Improvisation
To an industry obsessed with process and workflow, Ben offers an alternative approach to web design and development.
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Ben and Jeremy Recently Featured on Leading Blogs
Ben’s recent article on Web Standards Sherpa and Jeremy’s on Web Design Tuts Plus are now live. Ben introduces responsive retrofitting while Jeremy discusses typographic hierarchy. Both are great reads.
There Is No Breakpoint
What breakpoints should we use in responsive web design? As commonly as it’s asked, this may be the wrong question. Join Ben as he tumbles down the rabbit hole beyond the breakpoint.
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My-Media Mixin: Old IE Fixin' Without JS
Ben offers up a set of SCSS mixins that allows one to serve a large resolution layout to old IE, build with mobile-first CSS, and put media queries right inline where they make the most sense.
Rebuilding In Public
We’re rebuilding the Sparkbox website in public. It’s sort of like those nightmares you’ve had of showing up to High School naked—only real. Are we crazy?
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How Should We Write Media Queries?
A look at how the web community has been writing media queries — and perhaps how we should write them.
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