Absolutely! JS is there to make a web interface look and act more like a desktop app. The code that Hanselman displayed was simply JS libraries minimized to save on bandwidth. Without JS you have just another dumb web interface.

>The question we have to ask is: should we be writing any code in the client in the first place?
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>Hanselman has an interesting take on this question: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptIsAssemblyLanguageForTheWebSematicMarkupIsDeadCleanVsMachinecodedHTML.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScottHanselman+%28Scott+Hanselman+-+ComputerZen.com%29
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>Hank
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>>not to start any big discussions, but
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>>http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/06/time-to-learn-javascript.html
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>>Why a JavaScript hater thinks everyone needs to learn JavaScript in the next year
>>JavaScript is now a necessity.
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>>sums up my take in a very rounded way ;-)