Stephen Burgess

Front End Dev

Feb 15, 2018

How do you feel about progressive enhancement of web applications concerning JavaScript? Do you think that web apps should have full or mostly-complete functionality when web browsers have their JavaScript turned off? What do you think is a good strategy for progressive enhancement with JavaScript applications? Thanks for the incredible support of new ES features in V8, it proves the web can adapt.

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Mathias Bynens

I work on V8 at Google and on ECMAScript through TC39. ♥ JavaScript, HTML, CSS, HTTP, performance, security, Bash, Unicode, i18n, macOS.

Feb 15, 2018

It depends on the web app.

If it’s a website that offers content without much interactivity, like a blog, it makes sense for that content to be accessible even without CSS or JavaScript. Lots of JS apps do this successfully through server-side rendering.

The situation is entirely different for highly interactive tools such as SVGOMG. I don’t think anyone reasonably expects those to work without JavaScript.

In general, IMHO progressive enhancement makes a lot of sense.

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