The notion of making an awesome experience to 99% of users vs a mediocre one to 100% users seems a bit disconnected from reality, which is: apps are getting inc

The notion of making an awesome experience to 99% of users vs a mediocre one to 100% users seems a bit disconnected from reality, which is: apps are getting increasingly more complex. We could talk about graceful degradation and how that works on some particularly simple apps, but some APIs are simply not available without javascript (e.g. canvas). If you want to use the power of these APIs to give your users something great by today's standards (think Google Maps, etc), yes I'd say requiring Javascript is acceptable.