<story><title>Links are not buttons (2013)</title><url>https://karlgroves.com/2013/05/14/links-are-not-buttons-neither-are-divs-and-spans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superkuh</author><text>Everything is a button now that javascript applications have replaced HTML documents. And there are no such things as anchors or links anymore. They are not URLs but instead triggers for more javascript execution. We&amp;#x27;re, unfortunately, well past this minor problem and onto much more serious ones that eclipse it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anchpop</author><text>The FUD about SPAs and Javascript on HN is insane. Here&amp;#x27;s my personal site: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chadnauseam.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chadnauseam.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;#x27;s a SPA. It loads fast. There are such things as anchors and link (inspect element if you like). They have URLs and you can ctrl-click to open in a new tab.&lt;p&gt;(The biggest proble with it is that I&amp;#x27;ve been playing around with some js to animate a fade-in effect on page load, and it seems a little laggy and makes the site not work with javascript disabled. If I can&amp;#x27;t fix those issues I&amp;#x27;ll probably remove that in a few days.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Links are not buttons (2013)</title><url>https://karlgroves.com/2013/05/14/links-are-not-buttons-neither-are-divs-and-spans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superkuh</author><text>Everything is a button now that javascript applications have replaced HTML documents. And there are no such things as anchors or links anymore. They are not URLs but instead triggers for more javascript execution. We&amp;#x27;re, unfortunately, well past this minor problem and onto much more serious ones that eclipse it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chociej</author><text>TBH I don&amp;#x27;t care too much what someone does with a button or link, but if hold Ctrl and it doesn&amp;#x27;t open in a new tab, I&amp;#x27;m gonna be grumpy.</text></comment>