- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:49:53 +0100
- To: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Smylers On 09-11-09 21.11: > Lars Gunther writes: > >> 2009-11-08 03:41, Jonas Sicking skrev: >> >>> The harm that I see is loosing the ability to have a clear message >>> for what the right way to do things is. >> This was my fear as well when I tried to suggest a middle ground for >> this issue. Since it was a awhile I'll repeat myself. >> >> <a role="button"> should be forbidden when hard-coded onto the page >> for these reasons: >> >> 1. It is sloppy markup. Conformant HTML should be the best possible. >> >> 2. It is possibly confusing if JavaScript is turned off, since it will >> not act as a button in that case. > > What if it has CSS which makes it look like a button (even without > JavaScript)? First I thought: Stupid question. How it looks should not matter. However, if it is made to look like that because it function like a button, together with AJAX, then perhaps how it looks does matter. -- lh
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