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Why we use progressive enhancement to build GOV.UK

Posted by: Robin Whittleton, Posted on: 19 September 2016 - Categories: Chat, GOV.UK
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There seems to be a common belief among front-end developers that progressive enhancement is either old fashioned or has simply been replaced by single page applications. This is a problem of perception. We’d like to explain why we use progressive …

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