Around the Corner

Published 14 July 09 by Justin French

I expect demos like Snow Stack to pop up more and more frequently as modern web browsers get the sort of CSS support we could only dream of a few years back.

It’s easy to dismiss this stuff because it’s Safari-only, but so many of these cutting edge CSS and HTML features will make it into modern browsers really soon, and we’ll have some amazing opportunities to provide web-native, indexable, linkable, resource-oriented, affordable, maintainable, incredibly rich web experiences with a few lines of CSS and Javascript.

No Flash, no plugins, no alternate or low-fi versions.

Graceful degredation (or progressive enhancement, depending on how you want to look at this stuff) will be a conversation we have with our clients far more often and we’ll spend a whole lot more time designing in the browser.

I can’t wait.