 The web is one of the most powerful medium of outreach today. It has been possible this way because it was built around tremendous design decisions that will allow it to improve over time without breaking on older or newer systems. Today, more than two decades after the web was created, the very first website works flawlessly on almost every web browser. So each time I come across a website where in spite of the website downloading on my browser, I am unable to read the content because the font has not loaded yet. Or the fact that when I see a button and I click on the button, nothing happens because the JavaScript has either failed or not downloaded yet. It makes me feel as if I am a caged animal. In our quest to give the most cutting edge experience to the users, we make certain implicit assumptions about the client, things like the network speed, the device capabilities, screen sizes, and so on and so forth. We often tend to forget that while the web has become more powerful, the clients connected to the internet have become extremely fragmented and our implementation tends to ignore this fragmentation. As web designers and developers, we need to revisit our priorities and our approach to web development and base it on the nuances of the medium. Progressive enhancement is a way of building websites that complements the philosophies that web has been built upon. We start with designing for the most basic system and then progressively enhance our implementation to take advantage of more powerful systems. This year's Metarefresh will have a workshop on progressive enhancement. As a part of the workshop, we'll try to improve our understanding of the web and then go on to build a nifty web app layer by layer. That is, we start with the basic markup and then use the style sheets and then write some scripts to enhance the user experience. Along the way, we have to be mindful of the various pitfalls and by the end of the exercise, we have to ensure that our app works across a wide range of devices and user agents. The larger goal is to experience a more thoughtful, front-end development exercise and to carry back a way of thinking and an awareness of the various possibilities, constraints and good practices. I'll be facilitating this workshop. My name is Savit and I run a web design shop in New Delhi called Mirals. If you build things on the web, I would love to see you at the workshop and at the conference. Thank you.