- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:27:13 -0600
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Julian Reschke wrote: > My experience is that most people do understand the difference between a > link and a button. Really? Given the number of links out there that perform non-idempotent and unsafe actions, and the number of buttons that perform idempotent and safe actions, I'd be quite surprised by that. People do understand the difference between a "search" link or button and a "buy this" link or button. But that's a matter of context, not of mechanism. I agree that typical users understand context. They don't understand mechanism, nor should they need to. > Also, the fact that it's possible to *obscure* that Not only possible, but commonly done. And not even on purpose. > isn't a good argument in favor of adding more stuff like this. More stuff like what? -Boris
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