> Main difference: it does not degrade gracefully.
Who cares, really? The percentage of people who purposefully break their browsers isn't worth catering to.
Who cares, really? The percentage of people who purposefully break their browsers isn't worth catering to.
Accessibility. Is there really any reason why a questions/answer site with voting can't provide noscript tags?
Refactoring ours to deal with that, so not trying to throw stones.
EDIT: I understand mythz's comment about being a play project. i'm just responding to the 'why break your browser' sentiment.
Because making two versions of the site is twice as much work?
This demo doesn't let you link to (or bookmark) a page or open questions in new tabs. For an app like Gmail that probably doesn't matter, but for something like this I'd say it's pretty crucial functionality to be missing.
Progressive enhancement where you add JS to improve the experience is a much better approach. That way you get all the basic functionality for free instead of trying to retrofit it onto the ajaxy app.
Now that you can manipulate the address bar with pushState [1] you can even make these enhancements completely transparent.
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Manipulating_the_browse...