Progressive Enhancement Makes Me Sad

Re:Progressive Enhancement Makes Me Sad by egeozcan on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @03:31PM (#11384202)

Google Maps just shows some maps, and some metadata served next to them. Scrolling is not, at least for me, is the primary way to interact. All different zoom levels and map tiles are documents. I think Google Maps is a great candidate for progressive enhancement as maps are historically one of the most common documents.

I mean, I totally understand what you are saying. However, not having enough resources for implementing progressive enhancement to make ninety something percent have the best experience for eighty something percent of the time and not having something suitable for progressive enhancement are different things.

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Re:Progressive Enhancement Makes Me Sad by sanderjd on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @11:15AM (#11389862)

If we stipulate that almost everything benefits from progressive enhancement, will you stipulate that there exists a very large class of applications, which includes Google maps, whose success can be attributed to the richness of their dynamic user experience? If we can agree on those points, then we can just discuss the tough details of how expensive vs. useful it is to support a static experience.

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Re:Progressive Enhancement Makes Me Sad by wcummings on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @04:28PM (#11384607)

Seriously, I just want directions, getting static pages from gmaps would make it 1000x more usable on my (blackberry) phone.

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