links for 2009-03-03

• 51: Graceful degradation versus progressive enhancement – Opera Developer Community
  "Graceful degradation
  Providing an alternative version of your functionality or making the user aware of shortcomings of a product as a safety measure to ensure that the product is usable.
  Progressive enhancement
  Starting with a baseline of usable functionality, then increasing the richness of the user experience step by step by testing for support for enhancements before applying them. "
  (tags: progressive-enhancement graceful-degradation article design accessibility webdesign)
• Cappuccino Web Framework – Build Desktop Class Applications in Objective-J and JavaScript
  "Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser."
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign cappuccino cocoa frameworks framework open+source)
• The Cost of Accessibility — All in the head
  "As a web developer, there’s little I dislike more than building sites to be accessible. Making sure we don’t build dependancies on JavaScript, making every widget work with a keyboard and not just a mouse, making sure that everything can resize without the layout breaking; it’s all a royal pain in the backside. Get it wrong and make a mistake and a whole bunch of ‘experts’ (who don’t even rely on the technology themselves) will whinge at you something awful."
  (tags: article design accessibility webdesign webdev javascript html criticism framework html5 aria)
• Check your design with text size increased to 200 percent
  (tags: design accessibility usability wcag wcag2.0)
• Ground Zero: Google Maps and Nuclear Weapons
  Old but good – scorch your neighbourhood. Still – would like to see terrain taken into account when calculating the damages.
  (tags: google+maps science information military physics nuclear)

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