is it ok to forget about people without javascript turn on? [closed]

Question

I am currently building a new style ecommerce shopping cart to test various scenarios and get the best conversion rates. Alot of this will be Javascript based.

So I am trying to establish whether we are now in a time where we can simply say we happy to drop support for people with javascript turned off?

Thanks for your help help and advice in advance.

Answer 1

Look at your stats!

See how many of your users have javascript enabled, crunch the numbers and decide if you can afford to lose them.

Answer 2

I, as a person who lives happily with Noscript addon for Firefox, advise you to put a warning in a <noscript> tag for us noscripters, telling that your site relies heavily on Javascript. This will do the trick. It is not ok to forget about us, because there are lots of us paranoids out there, but we know how to turn javascript on, so you just need to be gentle with us, and everybody will be happy.

UPD: Just copy the StackOverflow's own <noscript> solution to your site, and it will be enough :)