On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 03:16:21PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > The ones I respond to are known to me and are legit -- > organizations, businesses, government agencies, etc. -- that I do > business with. To respond, I must switch to a web browser, login to > my email account (like gmail), find that particular email, and > enter the requested data either by keyboard, drop-down menu, buttons, > etc., then SUBMIT it. This happens all within the email. I never get > forwarded to another web site. I always stay on the web mail page.
If you don't get a new page, then it was not a vanilla HTML form submission. Those *always* give you a new page, as defined by the form's action field. That's why people stopped using them.[1] What you're describing sounds more like a Javascript button made to look like a form submission. Those can do *anything*. [1]I used to read slashdot regularly, and on slashdot, the front page had a bunch of news stories and a poll. The poll was written as a vanilla HTML form. If you participated in the poll, it would send you to a new instance of the home page, because a form *must* load a new page. Doing that would lose my place, showing a new set of stories, even if I hadn't finished reading the ones on the previous instance. At some point I wished fervently for the option to middle-click the form submit button to open the form's action page in a new tab/window. That never happened, obviously because web browser developers do not have the same priorities that I have. They've proven that many times. Eventually it became a moot point, because I stopped reading slashdot, and because web page designers have stopped using HTML forms. They're just too limiting. It's all custom Javascript stuff now.
