- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:15:38 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, public-html@w3.org
On 17.02.2010 23:09, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Julian Reschke<julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >> Of course it is done in practice. People are accustomed to the fact that >> buttons mean "put in shopping basked"/"buy"/"delete", while blue underlined >> terms are links. > > Buttons equally indicate a<form method=GET>, so that's not a reliable > indicator of safe-ness. Yes and no. They are not a reliable of *not* being safe. This is a bit different. >> I'm aware that these things are styled, and hacked around, but please don't >> claim that this is not the *default* way to present things. > > When we're talking about user interaction and expectations, it's > important to look at the user's experience in practice. Links are > often styled as buttons as well. See above. That's not good, but harmless as opposed to POSTs that hide behind things that look like simple navigation. > There is a weak correlation between the appearance of a link/button > and its safety. But it's not strong, and not reliable. This "weak" correlation is something I see in use in almost all web pages I use daily (Amazon, Bugzilla, banking sites, whatnot). Best regards, Julian
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