Links are for clicking. Click here is superfluous noise.
It is an interesting point, because in 2001, what is a link was usually clear and standardized: blue, underlined, often both, like on the article page. Now, just look at Hacker News, only the links in comments are underlined, and they have no special color, you have to mouse over if you want to know. And Hacker News is not in any way special in that regard.
So I would argue that "click here" is more relevant now than it once was. Same idea for buttons by the way. They used to look like, well, buttons, often with a 3D look. Now, there is often no real difference between a button and regular framed text. It means we need more context to guess which is which.
Please consider reading the rest of this thread before you keep fighting developers to do it your way.
After that if you still want "click here" that's your call but at least be open to better alternatives rather this dismissing this discussion.
With enough experience you learn that what is obvious is less obvious than it appears.
Click this hypertext link: <a href="more-info.html">More Info</a>
Put the device specific call to action outside of the link, and make the link say what it links to, not what physical action to take to follow the link.
Anyway, mobile phone touch screens don't click. Saying "click here" is like using a floppy disk as a save icon.
Obviously for the same reason you also should not say "touch here" either. Touching your desktop computer's screen doesn't work unless you have a touch screen, which is rare.
That's the point, why saying "click here" or "touch here" is always wrong.
...have you ever used a mobile phone? Clicking is the only action you can take on one.
> Anyway, mobile phone touch screens don't click.
Let's check the dictionary!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/click
- (verb) 2. [intransitive] To emit a click.
Phones don't do that, but that can't be relevant to the text "click here" because that text is directed at the user, not at the phone.
- (verb) 5. [transitive, graphical user interface] To select a software item using usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
Hmm....
Or is your entire point that you think it's actually a good idea to put the words "click here" in links? Then explain why?
Are you saying that you need links to say "click here" in order to understand what to do?
Then how did you manage to navigate to this discussion and press the reply link, which did not say "click here"?
Do you not think this looks like superfluous noise at all?
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