how-we-think-about-browsers-on-github-s-blog.md

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2022-06-30 09:50:00 UTC	How we think about browsers, on GitHub’s blog	Keith Cirkel of Github has written about how they think about browsers and it’s interesting	link javascript progressiveenhancement	false	https://github.blog/2022-06-10-how-we-think-about-browsers/							false	false

Keith Cirkel of Github has written about how they think about browsers and it’s interesting. In summary Github achieve:

• improved performance;
• exploiting new native technologies; and
• universal user access/inclusion

…via a progressive enhancement strategy that ensures a basic experience for all but delivers an enhanced experience to most. Their tooling gets a bit deep/exotic in places but I think the basic premise is:

1. decide on what our basic experience is, then use native HTML combined with a bare minimum of other stuff to help old browsers deliver that; and
2. exploit new JS features in our enhanced experience (the one most people will get) to make it super lean and fast

Pretty cool.