[whatwg] no <noscript> proposal

Anne van Kesteren fora at annevankesteren.nl
Mon May 30 00:14:05 PDT 2005


Christian Biesinger wrote:
>> Since browsers support DHTML there is no need for specialized fallback
>> element. Authors can use any element and hide/replace it using scripts.
>
> That does not work if the user disabled javascript, or if the user agent 
> does not support javascript (lynx, for example).

He's correct for a bit though. If you have the following element:

  <div id="noscript">
   <p>Foo bar, etc.</p>
  </div>

You could easily remove that DIV from the flow using javascript. And 
when javascript is disabled it would show up. Of course, compared to 
NOSCRIPT this is suboptimal at best.


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  Anne van Kesteren
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