Menu stays collapsed when JavaScript is disabled

Menu items are are staying collapsed with JavaScript disabled, even though all my menu items are set to "expanded" in the menu settings.

With JavaScript enabled the classes appended to a menu item, in order, are: "dhtml-menu collapsed start-collapsed" with JavaScript disabled the classes are "expanded dhtml-menu collapsed start-collapsed" In both cases, the menu items themselves are collapsed. In the second case, the latter class of "collapsed" trumps the "expanded" class.

Is this the expected behavior?