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Reasons to Avoid Noscript

Tuesday November 11, 2008
Some HTML tags are no longer required with modern JavaScript

The noscript tag was really useful in the early days of JavaScript to allow you to display content in your web page when JavaScript is not available. With modern JavaScript doing away with the noscript tag and making use of the power of JavaScript itself makes things far more flexible as you can use JavaScript to hide the content when specific parts of JavaScript are supported by the browser rather than just when it enabled bu(but may still not support your script).

Reasons to Avoid Noscript
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