(Playing devil's advocate marketing guy) Why would I allow you to see my product being website, web-based service or simply my advertising without the full experience? If I offer options to see a stripped down version then I am creating a consumer that will talk about the stripped down version and it will taint my brand. If you were to go to my site then when people ask you about it then I want you to tell them that your actions gave a non-optimal experience. (Non-optimal being my opinion of what I think you as a customer should be and not you a reasonable person should be)
SEO is my first thought. Have you ever tried to write a web spider from scratch? The various ways that websites are built can make scraping meaningful data VERY difficult. I recall one particular site that didn't even store the price for an item in the same parent container, so there was nothing (from a markup standpoint) that linked the product and its price... you HAD to view it with JS enabled.
I think down deep, the author is looking for the web to go back to the http://www.csszengarden.com days. I really wish web designers would put forth the effort.
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(Playing devil's advocate marketing guy) Why would I allow you to see my product being website, web-based service or simply my advertising without the full experience? If I offer options to see a stripped down version then I am creating a consumer that will talk about the stripped down version and it will taint my brand. If you were to go to my site then when people ask you about it then I want you to tell them that your actions gave a non-optimal experience. (Non-optimal being my opinion of what I think you as a customer should be and not you a reasonable person should be)
SEO is my first thought. Have you ever tried to write a web spider from scratch? The various ways that websites are built can make scraping meaningful data VERY difficult. I recall one particular site that didn't even store the price for an item in the same parent container, so there was nothing (from a markup standpoint) that linked the product and its price... you HAD to view it with JS enabled.
I think down deep, the author is looking for the web to go back to the http://www.csszengarden.com days. I really wish web designers would put forth the effort.