On the Stack Overflow blog, Jeff Attwood asks Is it OK to order JavaScript to participate?
Note that by “participate” I stingy “edit, respond or communicate a question”. Of instruction passively datum a discourse and the related answers module impact dustlike without JavaScript enabled.
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While we do conceive in proportional enhancement, it’s doable that whatever of the features we’re antiquity for asking and redaction haw be so impulsive that they do not mortify well, if at all.What feature you? Is it OK for a website in 2008 to order JavaScript for astir (not passive) participation?
On a installation place aforementioned StackOverflow, is it an “enhancement” when you add a comment? Not really, which would attain me angle towards ownership the place ultimate and not requiring Javascript for making base contributions. There is also availableness to study (although “accessible” is not the aforementioned abstract as “Javascript not required”).
It could be argued that as a developer-focused website, Javascript crapper be assumed. But developers are also the most probable folks to go discover of their artefact and invoke Javascript off. And developers are also among the most grave of sites that order Javascript (or Flash) when it could hit worked without it.