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Re:The curious case of disappearing Polish S by qball12 on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @08:57AM (#8990278)
yeees.... now-a-days very often without JS you pretty much get an empty HTML. I mean empty as in - <body></body> empty.
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Re:The curious case of disappearing Polish S by mootothemax on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:00AM (#8990631)
very often without JS you pretty much get an empty HTML

The annoying thing is: if there were a header the browser could send to the server - "JS is turned off" - it'd be trivial to serve a pre-rendered full HTML response.

It's what plenty of e.g. Angular sites do to support the various search engines. Adding one more item to the list of "serve a prenderefndered view if X is true" checks wouldn't do any harm.

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