Samuel Mace

Website Coding - Summer 2022

Learning Plan 3 - Progressive Enhancements

What is the site name and URL you reviewed?: The site that I chose was the MDN Web Docs, a popular source of web-related documentation.
What are Progressive Enhancements?: Progressive Enhancements is a web development strategy that allows more modern web features to be utilized with backwards compatibility for older web browsers.
Why are Progressive Enhancements needed?: Since a lot of users are using older browsers, not all of the latest web standards are available on older platforms. Many users of newer browsers, however, expect websites to look more up-to-date and less archaic. Progressive enhancements allow newer web and graphics features to be utilized on compatible platforms, without leaving older browsers unable to access the page content.
Does the site's home page validate?: The homepage of the MDN Web Docs does not validate.
Find any other page on the site. Does the second page validate?: The progressive enhancements subpage does not validate either.
Document how many validation errors and/or warnings may exist on each of the two pages you validate.: The homepage had 13 validation errors, while the progressive enhancements subpage had only 3 errors.
How would you rate the site's design, on a scale of 1(horrible) to 10 (fantastic)? Why?: I think that the MDN Web Docs site is overall well-designed. It does not have any advertisements, and the text and font is aligned such that it is easy to read. I would give it a 10/10.
How would you rate the site's usability on a scale of 1 (horrible) to 10 (fantastic)? Why?: I would also have to rate the usability as a 10/10. Because of it's good design, it is also easy to use and navigate.
Does the site meet its purpose?: It does a very good job at documenting web standards.

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