Jake. I'd argue that what you're doing here is one of the fundamental principles of AJAX (especially on the CSS end). To create a web-based application which can degrade gracefully when used in a feature-disparate browser, or when functionality has been, or has to be reduced for security or accessibility.
An example is trying to use DWA in Safari. Safari will swear up and down that it can't properly use DWA, but then voila, a stripped down (and ugly) version of the DWA application appears. It is usable, and --while I haven't tested this, is looks like it could pass muster were a screen reader to pass over it.
And we all know the best addition to DWA over the past few versions, right? AJAX of course. Maybe not the best example of AJAX, but AJAX nonetheless.
Now having said that, I wouldn't prefer to use DWA this way, but when I'm in a pinch and need to grab a PDF from my mailbox, and I have nothing but my friend's Powerbook, DWA still does what I needed it to do, even if it has to degrade it's quality to do so.
Jake. I'd argue that what you're doing here is one of the fundamental principles of AJAX (especially on the CSS end). To create a web-based application which can degrade gracefully when used in a feature-disparate browser, or when functionality has been, or has to be reduced for security or accessibility.
An example is trying to use DWA in Safari. Safari will swear up and down that it can't properly use DWA, but then voila, a stripped down (and ugly) version of the DWA application appears. It is usable, and --while I haven't tested this, is looks like it could pass muster were a screen reader to pass over it.
And we all know the best addition to DWA over the past few versions, right? AJAX of course. Maybe not the best example of AJAX, but AJAX nonetheless.
Now having said that, I wouldn't prefer to use DWA this way, but when I'm in a pinch and need to grab a PDF from my mailbox, and I have nothing but my friend's Powerbook, DWA still does what I needed it to do, even if it has to degrade it's quality to do so.
My $.02,