Is there any difference in <noscript> block processing for pages served with MIME-type text/html versus those served with MIME-type application/xhtml+xml?
As far as I noticed <noscript> block for text/html pages is not processed at all if JavaScript is disabled in browser. And what happens for application/xhtml+xml pages? I suspect that for such pages the block is still analysed when JavaScript is disabled. But I failed to find any clarification of this issue.
Could someone point me to appropriate W3C standard or provide any other clarification?
PS. Situation of interest is visit counting services wich use <noscript> block to track visitors with disabled JS. If elements (for example, zero-sized images) of <noscript> blocks are downloaded in any case then such services should broke :(