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It's really great that unlike Jam3, your site and the first example still work perfectly fine without javascript enabled! It's amazing how many people will spen

• Wowfunhappy 4y ago
  I actually spent a significant amount of time making my site work without Javascript. My noscript.css is only ten lines, but it adds an extra pathway into the code. I've broken several times while making other changes, and it took a while to fix. It's easy to make motherfuckingwebsite.com work without Javascript, but start adding fanciness and it becomes difficult quickly. I do it anyway because it's my personal site, and so I set out with certain rules for myself. In addition to working without Javascript in modern browsers, my site also supports IE 11 and Safari 6 (when Javascript is enabled). There is no build system, and all the code is handwritten (with a handful of very tiny third-party libraries like Waypoints). Philosophically, I believe this is the right way to make a website. Realistically, I would never do any of it on a professional project. No one ever actually sees it. (I'd like to make a distinction between support for unusually-configured software and support for weak hardware. I think it's broadly unethical to ignore performance because you're lucky enough to afford a fast computer. Manufacturing chips is bad for the planet, and the new ones might as well be no faster than the old ones if the code is going to be slower.)