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No need to do browser detection. Just make your site work without JS as well :)

Ten years ago, that may have been valid advice, when "dynamic" mostly meant "server-generated". But if you're creating a website that is heavily JS-based, it does no good to serve 25% of your customers a perfectly-standards-compliant page telling them their JS won't work, so the site can't do its thing. You still need to know what client base you are supporting, no matter what.

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