In fairness, it is built on the ideals of progressive enhancement - you you create an HTML table and without Javascript you just get that plain HTML table (like you do if you look at the DataTables home page without Javascript). With JS then you get all the goodies DataTables brings to the table.
Allan, the question is not does HTML supports tables. That's already established. The question he is asking if he can use "datatables" without javascript and the answer to that is a big no. Adding datatables to a page executed in a non-js environment doesn't add anything to it. Datatables is useless without JavaScript.
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[quote]DataTables is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library[/quote]
This means you need javascript, you need jquery and then the datatables to get it functional.
Allan