Re:Progressive Enhancement Is Dead
by dreamfactory on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @11:06AM
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So do I tbh but nobody ever makes a proper business case in practise. If you are going to say that HTML is no longer the default protocol for serving content to browsers (and that it is therefore extra work to support rather than the other way round), it seems like quite a big step. I guess we can rationalise the tattered corpses of Java widgets, Flash, ActiveX, Silverlight by saying they had proprietary roots and no universal support but feels like there's a lot of handwavey stuff around client support, RESTfulness, SEO.
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Of course HTML is the default protocol, but not vanilla HTML; many sites require JavaScript as well; the default is HTML + JavaScript not just HTML. Supporting non js enhanced HTML is extra work.