- From: Marat Tanalin via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:50:35 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
People will then just be forced to use empty forms to make “links” that can’t be opened in a new tab/window, and with no ability to see their URLs in advance. Such button is technically a button, but in fact is a link. Making a link button is technically possible, the resulting links are just not as usable as true links. Is that good? Fwiw, the [russian version](https://tanalin.com/blog/2013/03/link-button/) of my [blog post](https://tanalin.com/en/blog/2013/03/link-button/) about making a link look like a native button, has about 60-70 visits daily and is consistently the **most popular** page of my site for years. > <tantek> I'm a bit surprised this is being re-opened without new information. one random github comment is not new information There were _two_ comments actually. And mine was probably not about new information, but at least about that a **wrong type** of stats (using the `appearance` property itself for making a link look like a button) was used for making the whole decision. As I said, it would probably be more reasonable and useful to make the decision based on stats of: * styling links to mimic buttons (GitHub is an example); * using an empty form for that purpose (the _only_ way to make a link look like a _true_ native button, not just _similarly_). That stats would be not about _how_ the goal is achieved (good developers tend to avoid using nonstandard features), but about _what_ people want to achieve. And I’m not sure collecting stats of cases of styling links to mimic buttons would be easy/possible in an automated way. > astearns: I'd like a narrower issue and to close the older one Does such a new narrower issue already exist? P.S. The IRC log is confusing and hard to read. Why is it `<dael> florian: ` and not `<florian>`? It’s also unclear who each of the conversation participants is except for ones I personally historically know (while other readers might not) like bkardell_, fantasai, florian, tantek, zcorpan_. Some accompanying legend would be helpful for each of such IRC logs. -- GitHub Notification of comment by Marat-Tanalin Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5174#issuecomment-729882987 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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