[deltarholamda]

Way back, Conventional Wisdom was "build the site so that people with JS turned off could still use it." This was great advice in 2001, but it's pretty hard to do now. You have to choose what is, and what is not, convenient and/or appropriate for the end user. And that's pretty hard to determine, as there are more varieties of "end users" than atoms in the universe.

Plus, even if you're really careful and make something that is judicious with JS, phone users come in and blow everything up. For example, leaving a review could be done JS free buy opening a dedicated review view, and if the end user needs to refer back to the product, they can open a new tab. It's not so easy with a phone, unless they have really strong phone browser kung fu.

I would have thought that by now we would have settled on broad conventions for most things so nobody would be inventing all new ways of doing the basics. Instead is seems like things are proliferating. If there are any standards, they're top-down things from Big Corporations like Twitter or Google, because they have the muscle to force everybody to use their conventions and like it.