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. ;-) -- Timothy Knox <mailto:[email protected]> 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
