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Call me silly for running NoScript in this day and age of Javascript on every page but it's not often that I get a moment of "WTF" when visiting a site.

This one gave me just that. Took me a scroll down the page, then up again, then halfway towards pressing backspace... Then I remembered! Whitelist NoScript temporarily!

Normally this comes pretty naturally to me because I can easily spot that a site is depending on Javascript or not.

So my mileage varied.

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I'll be honest with you, I wasn't really thinking about the NoScript case when writing the post.

I'm not sure if NoScript has a way of telling you that you might be missing something on the page. Kinda like how Click2Flash tells me if it is a sIFR. That would seem useful for minimal landers like these ones.

They should add a <noscript> tag to the page and say "Hey you should be using javascript if you want to see this page."

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