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by ruricolist 4143 days ago
In some cases, yes.

If you are committed to doing everything in JS, then you have two choices:

1. Deliver a degraded experience to modern browsers and a terrible experience to older browsers.

2. Deliver a good experience to modern browsers and no experience at all to older browsers.

Depending on your business model, #1 may be the best choice. But if you're trying to compete with native apps then #2 is the only thing that makes sense.