Current trends aside, from a pragmatic perspective, I would anticipate something like this increasing development costs (labor & money) between 10-50%, and would likely have a very low ROI.
Current trends aside, from a pragmatic perspective, I would anticipate something like this increasing development costs (labor & money) between 10-50%, and would likely have a very low ROI.
- Most sites contain static content and are not interactive. Things like simple forms don't really count, in my opinion. - Sites which load static content are in my experience slower as a result of using AJAX, not faster
In fact, I'd argue that there is essentially no additional cost in building a site that uses progressive enhancement for loading content. If anything, my experience is it encourages a much more sensible architecture.
Of course, the value proposition changes when we're looking at interactive web apps, and I agree it's not clear that there's value there.