> Buttons regularly perform navigations. Clicking a logout button navigates the current page to a logged-out one; clicking a “search” button navigates the current page to the query results.

This seems to conflate appearance with semantics. If an element causes a navigation, I make it a link. Whether it looks like a button is irrelevant, that’s CSS.

I always choose one or the other by intended behavior first, and that always works out great.

That said, I like the idea.

Well, the idea here is “things that look like buttons do page navigation.”

And the proposal is that we should more closely align the presentation and function.

You are correct that if you don’t care about alignment, there is nothing wrong with the status quo.

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