Deprecating any tags in the post HTML5 world requires WHATWG approval and noscript is more of a fallback mechanism than a "security" feature or means to convey an opinion. There's no good reason to get rid of it.
Deprecating any tags in the post HTML5 world requires WHATWG approval and noscript is more of a fallback mechanism than a "security" feature or means to convey an opinion. There's no good reason to get rid of it.
The WHATWG, the group that exists because browser developers decided to ditch the existing standard and do their own thing?
What is it going to do? Complain about Google ditching the standard and doing its own thing?
That is exactly the good reason to get rid of it, for Google. Why would they want to allow a fallback to script-less web?
Also Google: If we detect you’re scraping us or any of our “partners” (read: the public web) we’ll shut you down. We have ways of ensuring we’re the only bot capable of indexing the web. Heard of web fingerprinting?
Javascript can fail to load for a lot more reasons than just the user disabling it. Noscript is the only way to let the user know that's occurred or to ensure some functionality doesn't break. In fact Google Analytics uses a noscript tag containing an iframe as a fallback to keep the data flowing even when stuff like a content security policy or bad network request causes the javascript to fail.