> Should “Cancel” be a link? No! Its job is to close the edit view. Not only does making this a link incorrectly communicate its purpose—visually and otherwise—but it saddles the form “control” with lots of features, like bookmarking and middle-clicking, that have incorrect behavior.
I don’t get this. Cancel takes you back to the read-only view of the form. So if /resource/edit is the form, cancel just takes you to /resource.
So is this “performing an action” or “navigating somewhere”? Hard to tell. I’m saying that if cancelling a form edit just means ditching the local state to go back to the normal view, that should be a navigation.
I don’t get this. Cancel takes you back to the read-only view of the form. So if /resource/edit is the form, cancel just takes you to /resource.
So is this “performing an action” or “navigating somewhere”? Hard to tell. I’m saying that if cancelling a form edit just means ditching the local state to go back to the normal view, that should be a navigation.
Someone straighten this out for me.