Based on convention I would say that hyperlinks indicate navigation, buttons indicate actions. To differentiate navigating from acting: navigating doesn't change any data, is reversible; acting does change data or is not reversible. I would put Back and Cancel under navigating, and Submit, Save, Print, Email under acting.
The following example from Luke Wroblewski's book 'Web Form Design: Filling In the Blanks' illustrates the idea: http://tinyurl.com/nghzbw - Yohan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44185 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
