Longtime web developer, lecturer, and web standards evangelist Aaron Gustafson and host Jeffrey Zeldman discuss the newly published update to Aaron’s best-selling industry classic “love letter to the web,” Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences With Progressive Enhancement, 2nd Edition (New Riders, 2015).

Topics covered include: Aaron's superhero origin story as a creator of progressively enhanced websites and applications; "we’re not building things we haven't built on the web before;" "creating opportunities for people outside your comfort zone;" development in the world of Node.js; "every interface is a conversation;" "visual design is an enhancement;" "interaction is an enhancement;" nerding out over early web terminal interfaces; Microsoft, Opera, and more.

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Links for this episode:

• About Aaron Gustafson
  
• Adaptive Web Design Second Edition (“95% new material”)
  
• Read the first chapter free (PDF)
  
• First Edition, May 2011 (read the entire first edition free)
  
• Web Standards Sherpa
  
• Notebook: Aaron’s blog
  
• Engagements: Aaron’s speaking page, using Quantity Queries
  
• "Quantity Queries for CSS" by Heydon Pickering in A List Apart
  
• A List Apart: articles by Aaron Gustafson
  
• Eric Meyer's "CSS Design: Going to Print" in A List Apart
  
• WhatsApp