Jake Archibald Jake is a Developer Advocate at Google who’s keen on Web performance. He developed Sprite Cow to help ease the pain of sprite sheets. Jake started a blog way after blogs stopped being cool.
The aim of republishing the original article by Jake is to raise awareness and support the discussion about the role of progressive enhancement within the community. We look forward to your opinions and thoughts in the comments section. – Ed.
Progressive enhancement has become a bit of a hot topic recently, most recently with Tom Dale conclusively showing it to be a futile act, but only by... Read More
Everyone likes stuff that moves about on the Web, right? Remember how you cried joyful tears when you first used <marquee>? I do. I nearly sobbed all the water out of my body as I gazed upon “JAKE’S COOL WEBSITE” bobbing back and forth in uppercase serif. Of course, we’re more mature as an industry these days.
We’ve learned that users don’t want websites to look like a CSI console... Read More
