[whatwg] no <noscript> proposal
Kornel Lesinski
kornel at ldreams.net
Mon May 30 09:12:34 PDT 2005
On Mon, 30 May 2005 08:14:05 +0100, Anne van Kesteren
<fora at annevankesteren.nl> wrote:
> 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.
I don't see many real uses for <noscript>. Mostly because <noscript> is
very primitive:
* doesn't work when script-aware browser lacks neccessary DOM or
XMLHTTPRequest support.
* doesn't let you reuse its contents, so that's always "wasted" bandwidth
(browsers don't put contents of <noscript> in DOM tree)
* doesn't work with multiple script types
Today most scripting solutions use progressive enchacement and don't need
<noscript> at all.
Decent dynamic menus work by transforming nested lists of links.
Maintaince of <noscript> alternative would be wasted effort.
sFIR and flashObject degrade nicely without <noscript>.
Actually you don't have to look far - entire WebApps specification is
designed this way!
--
regards, Kornel Lesinski
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