[ehsanul]

From the link: Degrades gracefully if JavaScript is not enabled

Graceful degradation is less common for JavaScript now than it used to be though. So if you want a smooth web experience, these days you just can't go without JavaScript. I personally don't think that's a horrible thing, but I guess most people who've disabled JavaScript (or use Lynx or something) would disagree.

[wladimir]

The only thing I was still using Lynx for is for downloading graphics drivers on Linux. Alas, since NVIDIA did their last site update, that doesn't seem to work anymore :(

I think that if your site has a clear-cut function, you should at least try to provide that functionality even for bare-html browsers. Doesn't matter if it looks ugly, the focus is this case is on functionality not looks.

[etherealG]

I think that's just a result of lazy programmers. Most of the sites I put together work with or without js. It's not that hard to do with a good templating engine that splits up each "ajax" part of html into a piece that can be rendered with a refetch of the entire page, or a refetch of just that part.

[franze]

i.e.: http://twigkit.github.com/tempo/examples/twitter with no-script turned on http://yfrog.com/h2g6vcqj well, i'm not quite sure how "Degrades gracefully" is defined, but i would not call the no js-version "gracefully"