[marcosdumay]

No, noscript doesn't do a fine job, because it will be handled incorrectly on browsers that fit any situation like the ones on the article's list of examples. A tiny minority of people that disable javascript does that in a way that is handled correctly.

But writing a page that works by itself and modifying it by scripts will work almost everywhere as long as you add any external dependency in a way that invalidates your script on errors.