title: Is an image within a noscript tag only downloaded if Javascript is disabled?
body: <p>Consider the following example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;noscript&gt;
      &lt;img class="photo" src="example.png"&gt;
  &lt;/noscript&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does the client only download the image file if they have Javascript disabled? (I'm aware the client can only see the image if Javascript is disabled in this example)</p>
  
  <p>The reason I'm asking is because I've been using base64 data URIs for several background-image properties in an external CSS (avoiding http requests). I would like to also use base64 data URIs for the src value of some img tags by updating their values via external Javascript (to retain benefits of caching). </p>
  
  <p>Essentially, the whole point of this is to avoid/limit http requests and so I was wondering if    I can degrade gracefully and only fetch the image files if Javascript is disabled? Or is the image downloaded regardless?</p>