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Re:Recreating the button by jwilliams on Thursday February 05, 2009 @03:27AM (#467394)
There is also now a trend to mix button and hyperlink styles - usually where one has emphasis - e.g. (Save) _cancel_

This works visually, but I think it really tramples on a lot of UI metaphor.

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Re:Recreating the button by ahpeeyem on Friday February 06, 2009 @06:22AM (#469617)
I thought doing this was to obey the web usability rule of "Links must never change state, while buttons could potentially change state." - the REST model, e.g. if you click a button you're going to modify/submit something, if you click a link you're just going to go somewhere else.

This makes sense in the [Save] _Cancel_ case at least, I'm sure there are apps that aren't consistent though.

A blog post with some ideas on the matter: http://www.svennerberg.com/2008/09/the-use-of-buttons-in-web...

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