Progressive enhancement is a way of building websites and applications.

It's based on the idea that you should start by making your page work with just HTML, and consider everything else an extra.

This is because the only part of a page that you can rely on to work is the HTML. If the HTML fails there's no web page, so you should consider the rest optional.

We use GitHub Pages to host our Jekyll powered website. Unfortunately, it does not support HTTPS for custom domain names.

Nevertheless, we just enabled HTTPS for our website by using CloudFlare.

I was honoured to share insight into the 10 design principles behind the Open Police platform at Open Belgium on 29 February 2016.