: 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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: now, I'm not saying "things should require JS"; I'm saying "the platform hasn't kept up, JS is how you cope"
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: which means that for some sites -- more than I think a lot of old hands want to admit -- it's reasonable
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: so blanket "things should work without JS" statements are, in my view, not even wrong.
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: govt information/service websites? Hell yes it should work without JS. Some plain documents too.
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: and many more should absolutely progressively enhance using web components
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: but some -- maybe many -- are natural adopters of a better vocabulary, and that can require JS; that's *fine*
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Replying to @slightlylate @sil and
I also appreciate the practically of running a business crashing against ideals.
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: how did Walmart address this question when you were there?
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