[A Question About Progressive Enhancement]

I have just started reading this book and came across 'Progressive Enhancement'.

 

I'm just wondering, to what extent is it necessary to provide as much functionality as possible to the end user ? I mean if some one has blocked Javascript or is using some ancient browser, is it really necessary to cater to such users at the expense of slower development oryour other users who are using cutting edge browsers ? Does progressive enhancement mean that I should use the new input types (date, color etc) in HTML5 ? Because that would mean I'm not relying on Javascript or CSS to serve my content.

[Resizing Images Without Losing Quality.]

Timthumb is also an alternative if you don't want to store images on the server (well it does cache images after the first http request) and dynamically resize them by simply passing height and width as parameters to the timthumb script:

 

http://code.google.com/p/timthumb/

 

 

I particularly like it because there is no overhead of storing images, or confining your scripts to a certain height/width. Usage is also fairly simple.

[Zend Php 5.3 Certification]

Nice to know. I don't know how long it will take me but I'm particularly interested in covering some of the regex stuff. Don't know if that's covered in either of these books because I'm looking at the table of contents.

[Zend Php 5.3 Certification]

Hello,

 

I'm preparing for the Zend PHP 5.3 certification and I have bought all 3 of Larrys books on PHP (PHP for web, PHP & MySQL and Advanced PHP). Can anyone here suggest if it would be better to start with the PHP for web book ? Or should I skip and move to PHP & MySQL book directly ? Should I use any other training material besides these books ?

 

Thanks