I believe website structure and layout design is improving by the year and we should not be so rigid as to follow a particular convention in a bid to honor some laid down rules that were given years ago.
Dev.to has always been known to be a tech writing/blogging platform until one day I saw a post by a regular writer raising money to buy a new laptop because his former laptop got broken.
I agree a "button is a button", I also rant about it in my head while building ever since I saw your post on it, but if we wrap ourselves, our team, our projects, start-ups or organization around that and not allow for flexibility, we wouldn't know what newer things we could create.
The designer who began the trend of making links look like buttons must have sat to think "who said only buttons could look this way". The look of buttons were also created by a person 😒.
In most documentation today, the href='#SectionOfPage' used on an anchor tag (while passing the id='SectionOfPage' into the section tag), is used to navigate between sections of pages. That is a button-like functionality there, but still we use it to navigate faster, plus in few cases where JavaScript doesn't load, navigation still works.
The web as we know it would have changed a lot in less than 50yrs from now all because we explored possibilities.
Yes @inhuofficial I learnt a bunch from your post! This is so useful in a team/organization context. Where everyone has to write in a conventional pattern that the whole team understands.
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I believe website structure and layout design is improving by the year and we should not be so rigid as to follow a particular convention in a bid to honor some laid down rules that were given years ago.
Dev.to has always been known to be a tech writing/blogging platform until one day I saw a post by a regular writer raising money to buy a new laptop because his former laptop got broken.
I agree a "button is a button", I also rant about it in my head while building ever since I saw your post on it, but if we wrap ourselves, our team, our projects, start-ups or organization around that and not allow for flexibility, we wouldn't know what newer things we could create.
The designer who began the trend of making links look like buttons must have sat to think "who said only buttons could look this way". The look of buttons were also created by a person 😒.
In most documentation today, the
href='#SectionOfPage'used on an anchor tag (while passing theid='SectionOfPage'into the section tag), is used to navigate between sections of pages. That is a button-like functionality there, but still we use it to navigate faster, plus in few cases where JavaScript doesn't load, navigation still works.The web as we know it would have changed a lot in less than 50yrs from now all because we explored possibilities.
Yes @inhuofficial I learnt a bunch from your post! This is so useful in a team/organization context. Where everyone has to write in a conventional pattern that the whole team understands.
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Layouts I totally agree on! Semantics should be followed as there is very very little that you cannot do while following best practices! ❤️