Yes, I know what progressive enhancement is, my point is that it's not worth the effort of starting from literally just html and CSS to cater for the people so unwilling to work with you that they don't even have the second most basic web tooling enabled.
And what kind of cost-benefit analysis is ever going to tell you that it's worth catering for the less than 0.5% of people who turn off JavaScript?
"As long as you're fine with the site completely failing because the browser is too old, or too new, or the user's bandwidth is too constrained, or the server hiccups, or a firewall's security policy blocks it, or a dependency goes sideways, or you accidentally drop a semicolon somewhere, then sure," says consultant and author Eric Meyer, "it's OK. What you build won't be a part of the web continuum, and it will be needlessly fragile, but that's a choice you can make."
