I think it's popular because it's: simple, small, efficient and documented.
For hugely complex web applications you would probably desire more, but the fact of the matter is that the browser world is not ready for huge stuff, we still have IE, we recently got iOS, Android and many others. Progressive enhancement doesn't really allow you do those complex client side apps.
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I think it's popular because it's: simple, small, efficient and documented.
For hugely complex web applications you would probably desire more, but the fact of the matter is that the browser world is not ready for huge stuff, we still have IE, we recently got iOS, Android and many others. Progressive enhancement doesn't really allow you do those complex client side apps.
Look behind you, we're already building them. Not everything needs to work in every old browser.