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  1. …in reply to @imfelquis
    @felquis @Spellacy I feel bad for your users.
    1. …in reply to @AaronGustafson
      @felquis @Spellacy I mean I agree not everything is enhance-able, but most interfaces have a basic fallback.
      1. …in reply to @AaronGustafson
        @felquis @Spellacy And if it's a public site or a necessary service (government, bank, utility, medical etc.) you need as much coverage as possible. You don't control the environment your code executes in.
        1. …in reply to @AaronGustafson
          @felquis @Spellacy If you’re running a business, you probably want the additional resilience progressive enhancement provides. More potential users == more profits.
          1. …in reply to @AaronGustafson
            @felquis @Spellacy And happier users (who can do what they need to do in your sure, no matter what) means more word of mouth promotion of your product.
            1. …in reply to @AaronGustafson
              @felquis @Spellacy Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you need to provide the same experience to everyone, that’d be a waste of effort. But providing a usable baseline means your sure will still work no matter what.
              1. …in reply to @AaronGustafson
                @felquis @Spellacy More dependencies, more (opportunity for) problems.
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                  @felquis @Spellacy Just ask the folks who depended on jQuery (from the official CDN) to provide their site’s interface & functionality.
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                    @felquis @Spellacy The majority of the time, things will run as you expect them to, but man, when something happens, it really sucks.
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                      @felquis @Spellacy And one last thing: don't rely on your analytics to tell you when issues like JavaScript falling over happen… most of them also rely on JavaScript. Take analytics with a grain of salt.
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