alt Hacker NewsSome of us do work on web apps not websites. Two different things. Websites should not be web apps. Web apps should take advantage of links when possible.
The rigid mentality of everything in a browser must conform to some supercilious standard all to keep things “pure” I will never understand. We can have things like figma. It is ok for web apps to exist on the internet.
I'm not disagreeing with you. A button with an action serves neither a website developer nor a web app developer. Neither group pretends they're a native app. The web has fundamental idioms that people have gotten used to for thirty five years. If it takes you to another page and it's not submitting a form, you should be able to treat it the same everywhere. If I'm in figma, I'm smart enough to know what looks like something that'll navigate the browser. You don't need a new element to accomplish the same action.