> Honest question, is this really possible? Yes, loads of things work without JS. You can use Wikipedia, even to edit articles, with JS disabled – it's all sim

> Honest question, is this really possible? Yes, loads of things work without JS. You can use Wikipedia, even to edit articles, with JS disabled – it's all simple HTML forms. JS just makes the experience smoother (adding buttons to help with WikiText formatting, etc). Most content and shopping websites work fine without JS. You asked how do you fire off AJAX requests without JS? You don't. You just design your app so it basically works as a set of HTML pages connected by hyperlinks and form submissions. Then you add JS to enhance things. > Apparently I've missed a whole area of web development if this is all possible with no Javascript. Yes you have. When I started (~12 years ago), JS was only used for little whizzy effects here and there, not much else. Then JS started becoming more viable due to prototype and jQuery, but it was always the most flakey part of web development, and we learned to use it cautiously as an optional layer of enhancement. You couldn't rely on it always working. It was a way to 'differentiate' your site, not a serious building block. Now, everything has changed, JS is everywhere and we tend to call things 'apps' more than 'sites'. I spend 70% of my day writing JS. I'm not sure if I agree with the JS-bashing sentiment of the article. But I do think it's still good practice to design your app so it delivers your core content/functionality without JS. Most stuff (blogs, e-commerce, forums, etc) can be built like this. (Admittedly some things like p2p streaming apps just can't.) Then you can use JS to enhance things, like enhancing your basic search form with as-you-type suggestions. This approach makes your codebase more structurally sound and less entangled, and makes your app more resilient.