css is _more_ robust against failure than JS, very definitely
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honest q: say chrome implemented <video> using JavaScript under the covers. Is it a problem they did?
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not if the script is built into the browser, no! If it loads from http://Google.com/video.js , yes
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arguably it may have, when you installed chrome. once installed worry is quality. post argues both solvable
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sure thing. If you can guarantee that my scripts arrive and are unaltered, I'm happy to rely on them
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: the important thing to understand as a web dev is that we make suggestions, we don't send edicts
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: and, as our apps crawl away from the "natural language" of HTML, we find the JS crutch becomes an exoskeleton
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: necessary in some environments; not "natural", but also not "wrong" or unholy
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: take, e.g., http://shop.polymer-project.org
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: works in scads of browsers, is a commercial(ish) site; the value of "works w/o JS" is measurable in ecommerce
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: and many commerce sites are happy to take a JS dependency.
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: it's 2016. Hand-wringing about what happens if JS isn't available is a bit..strange?
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: look at how many blocking requests these sorts of sites do. Their dep chains are already huge
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