Should you design websites that require JavaScript in this day & age?

Question

It\'s fall of 2008, and I still hear developers say that you should not design a site that requires JavaScript.

I understand that you should develop sites that degra

Answer 1

There is a gradient between web sites and web applications. However, you should alway be able to say "we are building a web site" or "we are building a web application".

Web sites should be readable down to plain HTML (no CSS, no images, no JavaScript).

Web applications, of course, could just say "Sorry, JavaScript is needed" (which also assumes CSS for layout). Application should still be able to work without images.