World Wide Web, Not Wealthy Western Web (Part 2) – Smashing Magazine
The second part of Bruce’s excellent series begins by focusing on the usage of proxy browsers around the world:
Therefore, to make websites work in Opera Mini’s extreme mode, treat JavaScript as an enhancement, and ensure that your core functionality works without it. Of course, it will probably be clunkier without scripts, but if your website works and your competitors’ don’t work for Opera Mini’s quarter of a billion users, you’ll get the business.
But how!? Well, Bruce has the answer:
The best way to ensure that everyone gets your content is to write real, semantic HTML, to style it with CSS and ensure sensible fallbacks for CSS gradients, to use SVG for icons, and to treat JavaScript as an enhancement, ensuring that core functionality works without scripts. Package up your website with a manifest file and associated icons, add a service worker, and you’ll have a progressive web app in conforming browsers and a normal website everywhere else.
I call this amazing new technique “progressive enhancement.”
You heard it here first, folks!