On 24/04/14 00:08, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
They don't work.
But...maybe they're only intended to be single-page-only examples? (Now
that I think about it...)
Yes. Bootstrap won't touch your links with JavaScript, unless you tell
it to.
If so, then I must have misunderstood the examples. The fact that
they're all pointing to different anchor links threw me off and made me
assume they were supposed to be functional. (I'm accustomed to blank
zero-length anchors being used to indicate "intentionally non-functional
placeholder link".)
Yeah, I don't know why they do that.
But I have noticed a lot of the sites that use anchor links to switch to
completely different pages are basically broken. Since the very
*beginning* of HTML, links have always been downright trivial to
implement, and have always been considerably *easier* to *not* require
JS. It's pretty much the single simplest, easiest, most fundamental
thing in HTML. And yet, more than a decade now after <a onclick="...">
linking inexplicably appeared, some people are *still* trying to
implement links using JS. It's insane.
I hate that as well. Sometimes I come to a page, with JS disabled, and
it's completely blank. Then my thought process goes something like this:
"Hmm, is it loaded. Yes, strange. Oh right I've disabled JavaScript.
What is this pieces of crap, can't they design a web site without JS".
However, you'll have to pardon that little rant. When I posted that
"Apparently they can't even manage make basic links work properly", I
swear it wasn't my intention to do another JS-rant. Coming from me, JS
rants are pretty much redundant at this point ;)
No worries :)
--
/Jacob Carlborg
