No Script content

Do people still use it? Do search engines like it?

[madmatt69]

Hi everyone - I have a website that I'm working on, and when you first go to the site, you get a small intro page which asks which language you wish to view the site in. When you choose, the site then opens up in a new window.

No problems there, looks great, works great. But my question is that if people have javascript turned off, or are using dinosaur browsers, should I include a noscript tag? Or will it just end up getting me ranked lower on search engines, because it can be seen as hidden text?

Thanks for any info!

[rcjordan]

Depending on the category or type of site, your visitors with js off may run as high as 15-20% (a tech-oriented site, for instance). It's generally considered a good practice to include at least some basic navigation in noscript.

[richlowe]

I would use a noscript tag so that people who don't use javascript can manually click. I personally surf with the internet equal to the restricted zone, then add sites I trust to trusted zone, so by default I surf without javascript.

Richard Lowe

[ciml]

As Richard, I can enable Javascript if I want to. If a site gives me nothing of value before enabling it then I probably will never get that far.