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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Understanding progressive enhancement techniques in web design ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Actually, I've been playing with it for a while.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Once you get into it, it's far easier than it first appears.Ryan's explanation is pretty clear and concise and a good starting point. The real key is to think in percentages rather than fixed dimensions.As always, the major problem is Internet Explorer! But what's new?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lastchip]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 07:10:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Great Idea ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Some what extra effort to understand web design technique...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CBIL360WebDesign]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:13:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[the sad thing is that Microsoft has a seat or two on the]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-393882-3692023]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[bodies that create these International and Industry standards and were heavily involved in creating the first two rounds of them, even adhered to them for a little while with the early Windows systems, but walked away from them with Win 95 and have been trying to get further away since, only coming back when either the US government, the EU government, or the market have slapped them down hard.The Open Document formats and standards have been out for many years and Microsoft did NOT include code to allow people to open or use them in  MS Office, nor could you save as them in MSO - that was until recently when a certain US government department put out a white paper telling all the US government agencies that any new office product they purchased HAD to be able to natively handle the Open Document standards in the way of opening, creating, and saving in them so that the US bureaucrats could easily exchange documents with their European counterparts; bingo, the very next release of MSO has that capability in it because it was forced on them to add it or lose some major market share.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deadly Ernest]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:03:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I can't imagine who you mean.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I seem to remember about some company based in Redmond causing havoc and breaking everything. And even now, not supporting a fraction of what others do.Lousy performance for a company known worldwide!Maybe one day the penny (or perhaps cent) will drop that Internationally agreed &quot;open&quot; standards are good for everyone.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lastchip]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:24:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[the sad thing is if every browser maker adhered to all the standards then]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[it wouldn't matter as the page and site would be OK on all browsers anyway.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deadly Ernest]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:09:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[it also maintains site security as you KNOW what's  happening]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[while a script called from elsewhere can be changed without you knowing it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deadly Ernest]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:09:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I like this concept]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have been trying a similar pattern, this helps solidify it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[grayknight]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:32:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Well said.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Calling (in some cases) dozens of scripts from all over the Internet is lunacy, slowing sites to a crawl. And if ever there's a perfect reason for a user to abandon you, that's it.Personally, I try and only ever have a maximum of three scripts and they are all called locally.  It's a sort of self imposed rule to try and maintain site sanity.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lastchip]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:11:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I agree.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think there's no argument, that site design now must address different browsers, particularly in the mobile space. Failure to do so, will result in your site(s) becoming a non-entity.The Internet is (as always) evolving and changing, and getting left behind isn't an option.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lastchip]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:07:42 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The concept looks good, but the delivery by designers is often bad]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[a part of the problem is they use the scripts to call scripts and other stuff from all over the Internet instead of from their own servers. This adds to delays in getting content and increases download costs for those of us who have to pay by the megabyte. It can also break the way the page presents if the person is using high level security measures to block third party scripts and cookies.As I said at the start, the concept is good, but the implementation often leaves a lot to be desired.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deadly Ernest]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:58:51 -0700</pubDate>
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