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Anything that forces users to have javascript on sucks, by definition.

It's exactly the same as the all-flash or flash-heavy sites of the early 2000s and I can't wait until javascript-only sites are consigned to the same dustbin of "why did we ever think this was a good idea?".

Edit: It also breaks search engine indexing.

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That may be true if your site is an article repository (blog, news etc) where the primary purpose is consuming text. If I'm on your site to read, then I certainly don't want to be "interacting" with the page.

But the browser is the new OS, complex applications are written for the web as a platform/runtime and this is not a bad thing. This is where Angular can help. It's not built to help you show/hide a few dom elements, it there to give you a powerful structure for developing web applications.

why is that? almost all browsers support JS, it's like saying we shouldn't force users to have CSS!

If CSS isn't supported, a website should gracefully fallback to working in plain text.

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Well, surprise, we shouldn't force users to have CSS!

http://webaim.org/techniques/css/

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