Please, Use a Link
foxfired
16 points
2 comments
June 11, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
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.