By Scott Jehl

Every so often, we come across ways to improve our more well-trodden core progressive enhancement patterns. Sometimes, we’ll utilize a new web standard to address problems we’d previously approached in a less-optimized manner, while other times we’ll make adjustments to address browser-or-network conditions that could be handled in more fault-tolerant ways. Recently, I came across an example of the latter, and this post will document a small but meaningful way I worked to accommodate it.

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