The Session
Beyond progressive enhancement
In 2003, Dave Shea coined the phrase 'MOSe' (Mozilla, Opera, Safari enhancement). Several months later 'progressive enhancement' became a phrase that web designers knew, but were unable or unwilling to use on large scale, high-profile or commercial projects.
In 2007, web technologies such as CSS and DOM scripting, plus our understanding of how best to use them have matured enough so that progressive enhancement and a transcendent approach can be a reality.
But what of the future? In this closing session, Andy Clarke shares his vision of how web designers and developers will combine technologies in the future to provide audiences with experiences that are beyond progressive enhancement.
The Speaker
Andy Clarke has been working on the web for almost ten years. He is a visual web designer based in the UK and started his design consultancy Stuff and Nonsense in 1998. As lead designer and creative director, his clients include local and national businesses, charities and government bodies and he has designed for The British Heart Foundation, Disney Store UK, Save The Children and WWF UK.
Andy is a member of the Web Standards Project where he redesigned the organization's web site in 2006. He is also an invited expert to the W3C's CSS Working Group. Andy regularly educates web designers on how to create beautiful, accessible web sites and he speaks at workshops and conference events worldwide. He writes about design and popular culture on his blog, All That Malarkey and is the author of Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design.
