Comment by soljin2000 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by soljin2000 | Hacker News Reader

Only if you never need any referrals from search engines. I know a site that has this awesome locally sourced food delivery/pickup system. Connecting consumers directly with the growers.

Their site is 100% in JS. And if you google for anything even remotely close to what this site sells you simply cannot find them.

Unless you are a members only app site would I say progressive enhancement is dead. Well that is unless you care about the millions of users on slower mobile connections with crappy smart phones.

    It’s a myth that if you use a client side MVC framework
    that your application’s content cannot be indexed by
    search engines. In fact, Discourse forums were indexable
    by Google the day we launched.

http://eviltrout.com/2013/06/19/adding-support-for-search-en...

They are probably a good case to follow, if you want to see what people's experiences with SEO for JS-based services are.

Why do people who are against server side templates always provide "well, just use server side templates and client side rendering both!" as a solution? Hooray, I can write my app twice for no reason! Way to sell me on pure javascript for delivering content.

That's a developer problem, not a Javascript problem.

No that's a javascript problem which makes things more complicated for little gain. With progressive enhancement you dont need all these phantomjs stupid tricks.

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