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(This is different from worrying about pages that “degrade gracefully” is a terrible idead in my opinion. If you’re not using JavaScript, you’re not using the w
by OpenAmazing 15y ago
(This is different from worrying about pages that “degrade gracefully” is a terrible idead in my opinion. If you’re not using JavaScript, you’re not using the web. Special considerations shouldn’t be made for you.)
That's the full quote. And I agree.
Whatever your business is, its doubtful that supporting browsers with Javascript disabled would help.
"Degrade gracefully" - at least to the extremes (no js, no css) is just bragging rights / pride for developers. I can't imagine a business scenario where this would be a legitimate requirement.
- thwarted 15y agoI can't imagine a business scenario where [degrade gracefully] would be a legitimate requirement. Not degrading gracefully, which rather than being a way to say you're going to support older versions or browsers without certain "advanced" or "specific" capabilities, is one way we ended up with bank, utility and government websites that only work in Internet Explorer. Most of those days are thankfully behind us, but that's mainly because IE doesn't have the market share it once did, and those browsers that do have the significant market share are now more compatible with each other. Often sites are more complicated than they need to be anyway, and if they weren't so complicated, they wouldn't need to degrade, gracefully or otherwise.