The “P” in Progressive Enhancement stands for “Pragmatism”

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I often think of IE11 as a rancid smog that follows us around, spoiling things. This is not me criticising the browser, though. Instead, I’m referencing how it follows progress on the web around, hindering it.I’m also seemingly putting the blame on the browser for that, too, but no: that blame sits firmly on the shoulders of the web community. Nearly every time some modern CSS is talked about in the hellish vacuum of sensible discourse: Twitter, you can set your watch by the TTWAI, which is “Time To What About IE11?”.The TTWAI phrase is almost always used as a prefix that someone “has to support IE11”. What they inadvertently give away in their short, often petulant exchange, is that when they say “support”, they actually mean “my website has to work identically in IE11 as it does in Chrome”. This, my friends, is the stinkiest shit, especially when you consider web design and development with a progressive enhancement mindset.We seem to be stuck in pixel perfection and ident…