graceful degradation
The ability of a system to maintain at least some of its functionality when portions…The ability of a system to maintain at least some of its functionality when portions are not working, or when certain features are not available.
» Graceful degradation is a close second to robustness.
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1 senses(idiomatic, uncountable)The ability of a system to maintain at least some of its functionality when portions are not working, or when certain features are not available.
Since we built the website with graceful degradation in mind, it will replace animations with textual cues if JavaScript is not available.
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1 sentencesGraceful degradation is a close second to robustness.
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1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable