Thanks for your answers, it's clear now. Caty On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 14:50, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/11/2010 12:39 PM, Ecaterina Valica wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Subject: [Form Buttons: Input vs. Link] > > > > In XWiki we have buttons that are created using input-submit || > input-button > > ||<a and the CSS is trying to have the same style for inputs and links, > > even thought is quite difficult (native browser rules differ from case to > > case and there are inconsistencies, like > > http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XSCOLIBRI-234 ) and semantically they > have > > different functions. We also have some problems when representing the > > buttons, because buttons should be 3D, having the affordance that you can > > push them, but that's another story. > > > > So I want to know if there is a special technical reason (JS related? is > > more simple to listen to<a?) why we have links and inputs for form submit > > actions, or we could use only inputs and make this a standard. > > > > Thanks, > > Caty > > Normally, all the buttons should be <input type="submit">, but: > - There are some old applications or templates that use <button > onclick>, which is extremely wrong for accessibility, and thus this > should never be used, and all the existing instances should be fixed. > - Some buttons are done with links, since their action is not a submit > action. I'm talking about most Cancel buttons, which shouldn't send the > form content back to the server. Implementing them as submitinput will > send the form content to the server. Sending the form content to the > server means more transfer time (sending bytes through the network), > more memory and processing time (allocating memory for holding the > request data, allocating time for processing the request). > > So, I think that we do have to maintain two kinds of buttons: > submitinput, and ahref. > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
