On: There is a pure HTML Gmail, and it still works

[alirazaq]

I said that if the functionality of a website is broken without JS there were poor design choices made; not that a web developer should focus on people who disable JS.

You can't seriously be implying it takes more time to write functional HTML than JS. One requires the other to work, when you flip it around it's bad design.

[gfodor → alirazaq]

By that standard GMail is a bad design. They have a completely different UI for users who do not have JS. This is almost surely an enormous amount of work to build and maintain. To me this tradeoff usually only makes sense when a sizable % of your users are going to use that alternative.