The glossary says "Loading…" forever when JavaScript is disabled #42

Context

glossary.html ships with <li class="wall-empty">Loading the glossary…</li> in the markup and a count reading "Loading…". With JavaScript off, both stay there permanently and the page looks broken rather than degraded.

What to change

Files: glossary.html

Requirements:

• Use a <noscript> block to tell the reader what happened and what to do
• The message must explain that the glossary needs JavaScript, not just say "error"
• Point them at data/glossary.json, which is readable directly
• Leave the normal loading state alone for people who do have JavaScript

Acceptance criteria

• With JavaScript disabled the page explains itself instead of hanging on "Loading…"
• With JavaScript enabled nothing changes
• html-validate still reports zero errors

How to verify locally

Open the page, then disable JavaScript in dev tools (Command Palette → "Disable JavaScript") and reload.

python3 -m http.server 8000

Then open http://localhost:8000.

Difficulty

Beginner. The contributor wall has the same gap if you want to fix both.

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