I prefer making all my sites work just as well without JavaScript as with it. This is cool though if you need a quick check to see if JavaScript is enabled.
In which occasion a software ootb like a browser won’t have JavaScript enabled? I’m genuinely curious, the only time I saw something like this was using the distro Kali having no script in Firefox.
I sometimes read HN in a text web-browser, but ultimately most people will have JavaScript enabled.
It's worth saying that most people don't even know what Javascript is, full stop. Weirdly enough my now mother does, but my younger sister doesn't - we now have a generation that has effectively grown-up post-smartphone, which is fascinating to me.
I've also been tinkering more with no framework js, although it's by way of typescript and webpack. And it's really fun, I think there are a lot of cases where you can just opt out of react or bootstrap if you know what you're doing
noscript is sadly, not perfect, but works if you stay 1st party.
A great way to make your browsing better is to disable 3rd party scripts by default and whitelist when needed, but <noscript> fails to work in those conditions.
You're thinking about Noscript the plugin. <noscript> is also an HTML tag that can contain content for use when the browser isn't running JS, but which would yield a cleaner page if not present when JS is running.
if you disable 3rd party javascript, (using ublock origin or others) noscript tags don't trigger because scripting is still technically turned on and noscript tags aren't assigned to the script they compliment so the browser has no way of knowing which ones to run or not run in the 3rd party situation.