Graceful Exits

The rail industry’s biggest fares secret: exposed, and now given an interface.

Proof of concept, more than anything else: how to hook up to a recalcitrant Flash-based interface.

Steve compares “graceful degradation” with “progressive enhancement.” Mostly he takes issue (rightly) with the rhetorical spin that the former applies to the idea of building a website. But I think you can compare them with each other as if they were two different types of crowbar instead: two ways of prising open the task in [...]

Elliotte Rusty Harold roundly disses microformats, comparing the practice of utilising them to homeopathy, of all “disciplines.” A bit of cheeky banter, so it’s probably churlish to point out that the comparison itself turns out to be unsound within his own argument: whereas homeopathy might arguably be no solution to any problem, Elliotte’s beef [...]