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Robbie Clutton @robb1e
@danwrong your rant about not using anchor tags for js, do you have that in blog form anywhere I can share? Sure you're more eloquent then I
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Dan Webb @danwrong
@robb1e I don't no but surely @adactio or someone has pointed out the badness in writing somewhere.
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Robbie Clutton @robb1e
@danwrong @adactio stackoverflow.com/questions/1348… seems to discuss in some details, suggesting href=js:void or click even on span as safer alternative
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Dan Webb @danwrong
@robb1e I'm harder line than that. If you've not got a URL to link to just don't use an anchor. Don't care what alternative to a URL.
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Robbie Clutton @robb1e
@danwrong good call. Do you have a best practice alternative for an interactive element?
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Dan Webb @danwrong
@robb1e depends on the context. Just pick something that makes as much semantic sense as possible. Even div/span is better than a.
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