Progressive enhancement

A frontend design paradigm where a semantic, universally-functional baseline is delivered first and richer visual or interactive layers are added only for clients whose capabilities and preferences support them.

grounded in: Recent shipped self-improve commits that gate the site's animated matrix/sky canvases behind client capability: 3f6d515 'Drop the matrix/sky canvases on data-saver connections', c5f9908 'Suppress the

Connected concepts

Network-adaptive rendering, Save-Data mode, Reduced-Motion Preference, Web accessibility (a11y), Resource Hints