[Bug 10068] Suggest making noscript obsolete but conforming

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10068





--- Comment #71 from Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>  2010-08-29 09:26:40 ---
(In reply to comment #70)
> You sure about Google Analytics using noscript? I know that Google discourages the use of noscript[1] because it has been so badly abused. I checked out the code for Google Analytics, and I don't see the use of noscript.
> 
> [1] http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=371b9ed951f93d9d&hl=en

Google Analytics itself does not use "noscript" (or support JS-stripping or
JS-disabled scenarios at all) - see my correction in comment #43.

You're citing a suggestion by a Google Employee for a non-analytics use-case,
not an official recommendation by Google for all use-cases.

Google themselves *do* provide code that uses "noscript", including for
analytics use-cases such as conversion tracking:

http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115794

They also employ "noscript" on the Google Search page, the Gmail inbox, and the
very forum page you cited - though not necessarily in ways I would recommend!

Also note the rather idiosyncratic use of "noscript" in Web Optimizer:

http://www.google.com/support/websiteoptimizer/bin/answer.py?answer=61149#m3

http://www.google.com/support/websiteoptimizer/bin/answer.py?hl=en-au&answer=64418

This blogpost explains how its use in Web Optimizer works, in case anyone's
wondering:

http://www.gwotricks.com/2009/05/server-side-dynamic-section-variations.html

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