[Bug 12401] "The noscript element must not be used in XML documents." "[...] it has no effect in the XHTML syntax." Why is this? Is this to intentionally confuse or restrict web developers into using a particular habit? There is no fathomable functionally practical r

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12401

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
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         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #3 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-06-10 22:28:15 UTC ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: People do things like this:

   <noscript> ... <input name=x> ... </noscript>

...and display:none isn't going to stop that from being submitted. Or,
similarly:

   <noscript> <meta name=refresh content='...'> </noscript>

There are plenty of better ways of doing this (like having script delete the
contents you don't want when scripts are enabled).

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Received on Friday, 10 June 2011 22:28:18 UTC