HTML Form/Page and Navigation with multiple buttons

[Steve Holden]

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> Steve Holden a écrit :
>> mosscliffe wrote:
> (snip)
>>> Why is a link better than a button ?
>>>
>> Beats me why you got that advice. Buttons are perfectly adequate for 
>> that purpose.
> 
> Call me a purist if you want, but I don't think forms and buttons are 
> "perfectly adequate" for normal navigation, which should be handled by 
> links. And FWIW, except for one of the worsts PHP portal in the world, 
> everybody uses links for navigation.
> 
>> However, you can if you want use links with "javascript: ..." href 
>> values to accomplish local scripting which can do funky stuff like 
>> setting form field values and submitting the form. 
> 
> Yuck. Anyone doing such a thing should be fired immediatly.
> 
> Steve, I'm not sure you quite got what it's all about : the OP wants to 
> *paginate* search results. Not to submit data to the server. It's just 
> normal navigation, and there is absolutely *no* reason to use anything 
> else than plain old links here.
> 
> My 2 cents.
> 
You're right, the English was contorted enough for me to miss the point. 
Buttons do seem a bit unnecessary, even to someone who hasn't drunk the 
REST Kool-Aid. Yet.

regards
  Steve
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