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Re:Why I chose Clojure/CouchDB for a new site by Hexstream on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @07:10PM (#495177)
"it gets easier and more mandatory to do more in Javascript and harder and more expensive to fake the presence of comparable functionality using HTML, forms, etc."

You don't have to "fake the presence of comparable functionality" (and in most cases you simply can't).

What you can and should do is support the subset of functionality raw HTML and CSS sans Javascript can achieve. No one will blame you for not supporting highly dynamic features that can't possibly be achieved without javascript without javascript.

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Re:Why I chose Clojure/CouchDB for a new site by gnaritas on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @11:32PM (#495447)
> What you can and should do is support the...

Bullshit, the only thing we should do is whatever the bottom line requires. 99.9% of users don't break their browsers on purpose, so you lose very little and save a ton of time and effort by simply not choosing to go the extra mile for those pesky few that try and break your site.

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