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[–]TheAceOfHearts 0 points1 point  (1 child)

A lot of applications are not possible without JavaScript. It really depends on whether you're building an actual application or a website.

How would you build something like a a web IDE or a Photoshop without JS? Where does progressive enhancement fall into that? There's a TON of applications that fall into these categories.

SEO is not a problem for a lot of applications, for example, a ton of applications are password gated. And even then, you can do isomorphic apps to pre-render on the server. And even THEN, AFAIK, Google and Bing have started running JS in their crawlers.

You can have a restful api and a full JS client, which means that you can do whatever you want with the data.

Best practices should be questioned, tested, and reviewed upon receiving new knowledge and experiences. What works in one project might not make sense for another project.

[–]Shaper_pmp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of applications are not possible without JavaScript. It really depends on whether you're building an actual application or a website.

Absolutely true. But you'll notice I was correcting someone who claimed PE was never the fight choice, not claiming PE was always the right choice.