FOUC, and the Death of Progressive Enhancement

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Argues progressive enhancement as originally marketed is essentially dead and replaces it with a user-first mandate: every site needs a serviceworker to control caching and offline behavior, stop optimizing for first-paint at the cost of jank and flash of unstyled content, and prefer configurability over silent guessing. Cites WebPageTest filmstrip evidence, a 1.3 percent JS-disabled stat for government users, examples like Gmail’s basic HTML and Opera Mini Facebook, and proposes a fidelity slider header to signal servers what to send.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:36Death and Taxes
3. 3:11First Web Browser
4. 4:10Space Jam
5. 5:19Separation of Concerns
6. 7:35Graceful Degradation
7. 8:55Progressive Enhancement
8. 11:29Web Performance Optimization
9. 12:29Phalke
10. 13:26Flash of invisible text
11. 15:15The defacto standard
12. 15:47Reducing the time to first paint
13. 16:55Have you ever
14. 17:30Users dont like these
15. 17:46Service Workers
16. 19:33Progressive Web Apps
17. 21:12Technology Layer Delivery
18. 22:40Technology Bias
19. 25:35Responsive Design
20. 27:02The Divide
21. 27:46The Great Divine
22. 29:57The Death of Progressive Enhancement
23. 32:53Is JavaScript Relevant
24. 34:26Google Maps
25. 35:39MapQuest
26. 36:42Alex Russell
27. 37:37Adaptive Design
28. 38:55Configuration
29. 39:36Car analogy
30. 41:04Personalizable design
31. 41:37Printable design
32. 42:27Shopping experience example
33. 43:34Peoplecentric design
34. 44:09Priority of constituencies
35. 44:35FOUC founding document
36. 45:15Browser as a user agent
37. 46:18The wrong mindset
38. 46:52The flaw
39. 47:45We take too much pride
40. 48:42Artists
41. 49:39Convergence
42. 50:18User Wants It
43. 52:25The Fundamental Flaw
44. 52:50Google Analytics
45. 53:06Statistics
46. 53:27User Experience
47. 54:03Average Best
48. 54:13Accessibility
49. 55:30Empathy Driven
50. 55:59Power Ability
51. 56:17Users
52. 57:06Browser Flaws
53. 57:45Browser Device

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