[SquareWheel]

Web pages should be designed to be standards-compliant. While you are free to turn JS off (and that's part of what makes the web great), you shouldn't be surprised if things break. Your browser is no longer standards-compliant.

[saagarjha]

Browsers are not required to support JavaScript; in fact, HTML has a specific tag to support this case.

[SquareWheel]

Yes, but the standard recommends against actually using it.

>The noscript element is a blunt instrument. Sometimes, scripts might be enabled, but for some reason the page's script might fail. For this reason, it's generally better to avoid using noscript, and to instead design the script to change the page from being a scriptless page to a scripted page on the fly, as in the next example

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html#the-no...

[saagarjha]

I think it's important to note that a "scriptless page" does not literally mean "give me a blank white page unless I turn on JavaScript".