Progressive Enhancement

This meetup will be a presentation and introduction to a technique called Progressive Enhancement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement). If you are web developer and have not already heard about this, well - you really should attend and find out more.

Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience - whether your users are viewing your sites on an iPhone, a high-end desktop system, a Kindle, or hearing them on a screen-reader, their experience should be as fully featured and functional as possible.

This meetup would demonstrate the principals of Progressive Enhancement. We will show you live practical examples, and show you how to apply it your projects. Some emphasis on jQuery will be discussed and demonstrated in the examples.

This meeting will be presented by my good friends Todd Parker (https://www.meetup.com/bostonphp/member/12185378/i/gh_new_rsvp_tl) and Scott Jehl from the Filament Group (https://filamentgroup.com/). They are a Boston based web design firm specializing in designing interfaces for Web, Mobile, and touchscreen Kiosks. I've worked with them in the past and they are an amazing design and development team.

They are also part of the development team for jQuery & jQuery UI. They are also the creators of the very popular UI theme generator for jQuery UI called Themeroller (https://jqueryui.com/themeroller/).

They just published a book on Progressive Enhancement (https://filamentgroup.com/dwpe) and will be giving away a few copies to attendees.

Learn more here:

https://filamentgroup.... (https://filamentgroup.com/dwpe)

Agenda:
6:30 - 7:00 : Doors open, socializing
7:00 - 7:15 : Announcements
7:15 - 8:45 : Presentation
8:45 - 9:00 : Questions
9:00 - ???? : Beers somewhere?