rafalp / Misago

Misago is fully featured modern forum application that is fast, scalable and responsive.

http://misago-project.org

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Final decision: JavaScript required or not? #210

Closed rafalp closed 10 years ago

rafalp commented 10 years ago

Yes

rafalp commented 10 years ago

Currently I'm settled on "Not for browsing, yes for posting".

Ergo, if you just want to browse forum contents, you can turn JS off and it will work. But if you want to join discussion and use other site features, plenty of them will be JS&HTML5 based to provide smooth experience.

This approach would also allow me to replace parts of site with handlebars templates controled by backbone.js or other small js framework.

rafalp commented 10 years ago

I've consulted this around and general conclusion is "dood, its fricken 2014, browsers make it hard to turn JS off and even if you waste time supporting non-JS'rs, half of net already requires JS and will forcem them to enable it anyway."

So yep, Misago will embrance JS too. While we won't be going Discourse route, some things will be done exclusively in JS.