Progressive EEnhancement [EECI 2011]

Progressive
nhancement

by Aaron Gustafson
@aarongustafson
http://slideshare.net/AaronGustafson

fault tolerance
n. a system’s ability to continue to
operate when it encounters and
unexpected error.

BROWSERS
IGNORE WHAT
THEY DON’T
UNDERSTAND

MODERN
BROWSERS
OLDER BROWSERS

“SPECIAL NEEDS”
CAN BE
CONTEXTUAL

PROGRESSIVE
GRACEFUL DEGRADATION ENHANCEMENT

PROGRESSIVE
ENHANCEMENT
ISN’T ABOUT
BROWSERS

BROWSERS AND
TECHNOLOGIES
COME AND GO

DON’T LOSE
SIGHT OF
YOUR USERS

User Experience

BASIC ADVANCED

Browser Capabilities

User Experience

BASIC ADVANCED


Content

User Experience

Semantics
BASIC ADVANCED


Content

User Experience

Design

Semantics
BASIC ADVANCED


Content

User Experience

Interactivity

Design

Semantics
BASIC ADVANCED


Content

User Experience

Accessibility

Interactivity

Design

Semantics
BASIC ADVANCED


Content

User Experience

ARIA

JavaScript

CSS

HTML
BASIC ADVANCED


Text & HTTP

Content
is WHY
we build
websites

Clear,
well-written
prose is key.

Progressive EEnhancement

Fault tolerance
<p>HTML5 introduces several <em>really</em>
useful elements and a ton of new APIs.</p>

<p>Please fill out the form below.
<strong>Note: all fields are required.</strong></p>

<p>I like to work with markup languages because
<strong>they are simple and easy to read</strong>.
They also have that certain <i lang="fr" title="I
don’t know what">je ne sais quoi</i>.</p>

EECI - October 2011 46


Fault tolerance
HTML5 introduces several really
useful elements and a ton of new APIs.

Please fill out the form below.
Note: all fields are required.

I like to work with markup languages because
they are simple and easy to read.
They also have that certain je ne sais quoi.



Fault tolerance
<video poster=”poster.png”>
<source src=”video.m4v”/>
<source src=”video.webm”/>
<source src=”video.ogv”/>
<img src=”poster.png” alt=””/>
<ul>
<li><a href="video.m4v">Download MP4</a></li>
<li><a href="video.webm">Download WebM</a></li>
<li><a href="video ogv">Download Ogg</a></li>
</ul>
</video>



Fault tolerance
<input type="date" name="dob"/>

I get it! I don’t get it :-(



Classi cation


Identi cation


Microformats
<section class="vcard">
<figure>
<img class="photo" src="aaron-gustafson.jpg" alt=""/>
</figure>
<h1 class="fn">Aaron Gustafson</h1>
…
<p>Aaron … is <b class="role">Group Manager</b> of the
<a class="org" href="http://webstandards.org">Web
Standards Project (WaSP)</a> ….</p>
</section>



Microformats
<body class="hentry">
<h1 class="entry-title">
{exp:typogrify}{title}{/exp:typogrify}
</h1>
<h3 class="author vcard">Posted by
<a class="fn" href="/archives/by-author/{username}/">
{author}</a> on
<time class="updated"
datetime="{entry_date format='%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s'}"
pubdate="pudate">{entry_date format='%d %F %Y'}
</time>
<a rel="bookmark" href="{the_permalink}">Permalink</a></h3>
</h3>
<div class=”entry-content”>
{exp:typogrify}{entry_body}{/exp:typogrify}
</div>
</body>



EE/CI helpers
CI Microformats (helper)
hcard, rel-license
http://codeigniter.com/wiki/microformats

VZ Address ( eldtype)
hcard
https://github.com/elivz/vz_address.ee_addon

Easy Figures (plug-in)
gure
https://github.com/easy-designs/easy_figures.eeaddon



Parsing errors

p{
color: red;
}



Parsing errors

p{
color: red;
font-weight: bold;
}



Parsing errors
p {
color: #ccc;
color: rgba( 0, 0, 0, .5 );
}



Parsing errors
html[lang] p {
color: #ccc;
color: rgba( 0, 0, 0, .5 );
}



Parsing errors
@-moz-document url-prefix() {
html[lang] p {
color: #ccc;
color: rgba( 0, 0, 0, .5 );
}
}


#intro {
/* Basic Layout */
}

/* ... */

body[id=css-zen-garden] #intro {
/* Advanced Layout */
}

#intro {
/* Basic Layout */
}

/* ... */

[foo], #intro {
/* Advanced Layout */
}


Parsing errors
@import 'not-for-IE7-or-below.css' screen;

@media screen, print, refrigerator {
/* IE will get these rules */
}



Organization

design



Organization

type color

layout



Organization
/* =Typography */
img {
display: block;
}

/* =Layout */
@media screen {
.frame .inner {
border: 10px solid;
}
}

/* =Color */
.frame .inner {
background-color: rgb(227, 222, 215);
border-color: rgb(227, 222, 215);
}



Organization

type.css

layout.css

color.css



Organization

type.css

layout.css main.css

color.css



Organization
# Setup
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# rewrite css, img & js
RewriteRule ^css/(.*).css$ /styles/$1 [L]



Organization
{embed="styles/typography"}

@media screen {
{embed="styles/layout-screen"}
}

{embed="styles/color"}



Organization
{embed="styles/reset"}

@media screen {
}

@media print {
{embed="styles/layout-print"}
}

{embed="styles/effects"}



Mobile- rst

@media screen {
{embed="styles/layout-mobile"}
}

{embed="styles/layout-tablet"}

@media screen and (min-width:860px) {
}

@media print {
}



Mobile- rst

@media screen {
{embed="styles/layout-mobile"}
}

{embed="styles/layout-tablet"}

}

@media print {
}



Mobile- rst
/* … */
}

/* … */
}

/* … */
}

/* … */
}


Monkey-patching
<link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css"/>


Monkey-patching
@-moz-document url-prefix() {

/* GENERATED CONTENT - FF3 doesn't allow positioning */
#extra-mile:before {
content: '';
}
#extra-mile:first-of-type:before {
content: url(extra-mile-sign.png);
}

}



Sins of our past
<a href="javascript:someFunction();">some text</a>

<a href="javascript:void(null);"
onclick="someFunction();">some text</a>

<a href="#" onclick="someFunction();">some text</a>



A minor improvement
<a href="http://offsite.com"
onclick="newWin( this.href ); return false;">
some text</a>



Event listeners
window.onload = handleExternalLinks;

function handleExternalLinks()
{
var server = document.location.hostname;
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
var i, href;
for( i=0; i < anchors.length; i++ )
{
href = anchors[i].href;
if ( href.indexOf("http://" + server) == -1 &&
href.indexOf("https://" + server) == -1 )
{
// HREF is not a file on my server
anchors[i].onclick = function()
{
newWin( this.href );
};
}
}
}


Listen and delegate
document
.getElementsByTagName( 'body' )[0]
.onclick = clickDelegator;

function clickDelegator( e )
{
e = ( e ) ? e : event;
var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
// external links
if ( el.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'a' &&
el.getAttribute( 'rel' ) == 'external' )
{
newWin( el.href );
}
}



Anchor-include pattern
<a data-replace="/comments/{url_title}/"
href="/archives/{entry_date format='%Y/%m/%d'}/{url_title}/
comments/#comments">View comments on this entry and add your
own</a>

{if segment_4=="comments"}
<section id="comments" class="focal">
{embed="inc/.comments" url_title="{url_title}"}
</section>
{if:else}
{comment_loader}
{/if}



{embed="inc/.comments" url_title="{segment_3}"}



https://gist.github.com/b976b67e88ffbfc9f125

$.fn.ajaxInclude = function(){
return this.each(function() {
var $el = $( this ),
target = $el.data( 'target' ),
$targetEl = target && $( target ) || $el,
methods = [ 'append', 'replace', 'before', 'after' ],
ml = methods.length,
method,
url;
while ( ml-- ) {
method = methods[ ml ];
if ( $el.is( '[data-' + method + ']' ) ) {
url = $el.data( method );
break;
}
}
if ( method == 'replace' ) { method += 'With'; }
if ( url && method ) {
$.get( url, function( data ){
$el.trigger( 'ajaxInclude', [$targetEl, data] );
$targetEl[ method ]( data );
});
}
});
};


Replace:
<a data-replace="articles/latest/fragment"
href="...">Latest Articles</a>

Before:
<a data-before="articles/latest/fragment"

After:
<a data-after="articles/latest/fragment"



$("[data-append],[data-replace],”+
“[data-after],[data-before]").ajaxInclude();



Media Queries


Mobile interfaces



Swapping content
var trigger = 659;

// …

function toggleDisplay()
{
var width = $window.width();
if ( showing == 'old' &&
width <= trigger )
{
$old_nav.replaceWith($new_nav);
showing = 'new';
}
else if ( showing == 'new' &&
width > trigger )
{
$new_nav.replaceWith($old_nav);
showing = 'old';
}
}


What is it?



What is it?

<button>Tweet</button>

<a class=”button”>Tweet</a>



What is it?



What is it?

<button>Search Mail</button>

<div>Search Mail</div>



ARIA maps the OS to the web


All the web’s a play…
<section id="main" role="main">

</section>


Semantic comparison
Ad-hoc ARIA Role HTML5

#header, #top banner header (kind of)

#main, #content main none

#extra, .sidebar complementary, note aside

#footer, #bottom contentinfo footer

#nav navigation nav

.hentry article article



These are the droids you seek
<span role="button">OK</span>

<div role="alert">
<p>Something went wrong.</p>
</div>

<div role="alertdialog">
<p>Something went wrong.</p>
<img src="x.png" alt="dismiss" role="button" />
</div>



What is it?

<a role=”button”>Tweet</a>
class=”button”>Tweet</a>



What is it?

<a role=”button”>Tweet</a>



What’s happening?

B B
(off) (on)

<span>
<img src="bold-off.png" alt="bold" />
</span>
<span>
<img src="bold-on.png" alt="bold" />
</span>



What’s happening?

B B
(off) (on)

<span>
<img src="bold-off.png" alt="not bold" />
</span>
<span>
</span>



What’s happening?

B B
(off) (on)

<span role="button" aria-pressed="false">
<img src="bold-off.png" alt="not bold" />
</span>
<span role="button" aria-pressed="true">
</span>



Hey! Over here!



Hey! Over here!

<input class="tweet-counter" value="140" disabled="disabled">



Hey! Over here!

<span id="chars_left_notice" class="numeric">
<strong id="status-field-char-counter"
class="char-counter">140</strong>
</span>



Hey! Over here!

<span class="tweet-counter">140
<b class="hidden"> characters remaining</b></span>

.hidden {
position: absolute;
left: −999em;
}



Hey! Over here!

<span class="tweet-counter">maximum of 140 characters</span>

<span class="tweet-counter">140
<b class="hidden"> characters remaining</b></span>



Hey! Over here!

<span aria-live="polite" aria-atomic="true"
class="tweet-counter">140<b class="hidden">
characters remaining</b></span>



Hey! Over here!


ARIA

JavaScript

CSS

HTML

Text & HTTP

Progressive nhancement
by Aaron Gustafson
More of the same:
http://adaptivewebdesign.info
http://easy-designs.net
http://easy-reader.net
http://aaron-gustafson.com
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