On: Second-Guessing the Modern Web (2020)

[zdragnar]

Why is every clickable element implemented as a div? You lose out on a lot of native things, like changing mouse cursor on hover, keyboard navigation for users with special accessibility needs, etc.

[GMoromisato → zdragnar]

Good point! Yes, for lots of things I need to use <a> instead.

Again, though, I want that to be handled by the platform, as much as possible, so that devs don’t have to.

[robertoandred → GMoromisato]

<a> or <button>, depending on the function

[GMoromisato → robertoandred]

Agreed. And obviously we'd implement all the ARIA stuff.