Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:22:05PM -0400, Adam Atlas 
wrote:
> 
> On 20 Apr 2007, at 16.14, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
> >>What you want to do is use single-submit-button forms, not links.
> >>(Eg. you have one <form> for each action rather than a link, with
> >>a submit button as UI to trigger the action.)
> >
> >Ooh, I hate those.    Hello slow web-application, please force me  
> >to click on your slow slow buttons a dozen times to change a few  
> >settings.
> 
> How's that any different from doing it with links, in terms of user  
> interaction? If you really want to, you can even style a button to  
> look exactly like a link.


Because some browsers (such as Firefox) and browser accelerators attempt to
fetch the first few links on a page *before* the user clicks on them, so that
clicking will be much faster. D'oh! Your acceleration just changed your
settings. ;-)

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I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone.
My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
    -- Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language

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