Please, Use a Link

foxfired 16 points 2 comments June 11, 2026
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JohnFen

He says this is a rant, but it isn't. It's a thoughtful criticism of a common but bad practice. But I'm very sympathetic to the criticism since this has long been on my pet peeves list.

ktpsns

It's incredible how we said the same argument in pre-web 2.0 days. People loved to write code like <a href="javascript:open('http://example.com')">bla</a> I haven't seen these obscenities for a long time.

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