It’s disappointing how developers are so lazy to not even know the basic concept of a link. It’s completely ridiculous yet super common to see click handlers on DIV elements that set the value of location.href
As for A/BUTTON, we really need an attribute that clears the button’s style entirely, safely and forever. Nobody knows how to properly and full drop all useragent styles from a button, try googling it.
I keep wondering if this can be attributed to front-end devs learning SPA libraries (React, Angular, etc..), skipping the 'boring boilerplate' by attending boot camps that start them with a gigantic node_modules/ folder, and never actually learning the fundamentals of HTML, like anchor links (I doubt such developers even know that the 'a' tag stands for 'anchor'). So we end up with unsemantic div soup everywhere, and such developers breaking into a cold sweat when someone utters 'accessibility' in proximity to their demo.
This comes from the fact that SPA routers work best when you use JS to update so you don't have the page flash like a normal page load. React router at least has a trick element which is an a tag with href but if you click it, it intercepts it an does an onclick load. But it still works as a link for all other purposes like copying location.
It’s disappointing how developers are so lazy to not even know the basic concept of a link. It’s completely ridiculous yet super common to see click handlers on DIV elements that set the value of location.href
As for A/BUTTON, we really need an attribute that clears the button’s style entirely, safely and forever. Nobody knows how to properly and full drop all useragent styles from a button, try googling it.