The Session
What is progressive enhancement?
Join me as I take a trip down memory lane. From the bad ol' days of the browser wars up to today's brave new Web 2.0, I'll be tracing the roots of an idea. That idea is progressive enhancement. Find out why progressive enhancement has only become possible thanks to technological advances. I will be explaining why progressive enhancement is so important to my workflow. I'd also like to take this opportunity to introduce the great line of developers speaking at the Highland Fling.
The Speaker
Jeremy Keith is a web developer working in Brighton with the web consultancy firm Clearleft where he enjoys building accessible, elegant websites using the troika of web standards: XHTML, CSS and the DOM.
He is the author of DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model, published by Friends of ED, and Bulletproof Ajax, published by New Riders. Jeremy is a member of the Web Standards Project where he serves as joint leader of the DOM Scripting Task Force.
His online home is adactio.com. When he's not building websites, Jeremy plays bouzouki in the alt.country band Salter Cane. He is also the creator and curator of one of the Web's largest online communities dedicated to Irish traditional music, The Session.
