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Is progressive enhancement still possible nowadays? Considering how many millennials choose JavaScript frameworks for most of their projects I suppose not. It is very rare for me to find a website that works without JavaScript enabled either because the website in itself is written with JavaScript (which by the way doesn't sounds like a good idea, try that with Lynx) or because they are using analytic services as dependencies for the rest of the code.


> Is progressive enhancement still possible nowadays?

It's certainly possible to write a site intending to progressively enhance it. It's easy, even.

It's not possible for end users to rely on it existing, because as you note lazy, sloppy developers don't bother.

I prefer to light a candle and curse the darkness.


From personal experience for a number of web-sites I've have had drop curl and use a headless chrome browser with ChromeDriver/Selenium/Python to get the data I need now.




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