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Reference
Glossary
DegradeHow a Web page "degrades" refers to how it will be displayed by older or
less popular browsers. The hope is that the Web page will "degrade
gracefully," meaning the images and text will be displayed in roughly the
same way across a variety of browsers and platforms. If a designer relies
heavily on JavaScript, for example, then the
site will not work correctly on older browsers and thus not degrade
gracefully. This problem of browsers interpreting Web pages differently
is one reason why protocol is so important. If everyone agreed on one
protocol for using HTML, then it would be considerably easier to control
how Web pages degrade.
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