• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    It hits slightly different though.

    For example graceful degradation could be considered when a device can have different components fail but the rest still work.

    Progressive enhancement can be considered to be a device with basic functionality with optional add-ons.

    It’s basically about the base getting less functional, versus the baseline being upgraded. From a certain point of view they are the same thing but realistically they’re not.

    If I have a device with an optional add-on and I don’t actually have that add-on installed, I wouldn’t say the device is “degraded”, even though technologically it probably doesn’t make much difference.