I see your point but looking at some applications e.g. hotmail, Amazon which use images + links (at least I am not that bad), Flickr which uses flash and then GMail which uses buttons I do not see major applications being consistent across the board.
Whereas the simple submit button is normally a grey button.
I think the "Don't Make Me Think" school of thought is good (love the book) so my links are styled very clearly as actions with the appropriate CSS based roll over images and have a very descriptive text label so even if the style is removed its very clear what the link(action) will do.
They are also contained in an Actions panel which is placed (normally) top and bottom of the form.
I see your point but looking at some applications e.g. hotmail, Amazon which use images + links (at least I am not that bad), Flickr which uses flash and then GMail which uses buttons I do not see major applications being consistent across the board.
Whereas the simple submit button is normally a grey button.
I think the "Don't Make Me Think" school of thought is good (love the book) so my links are styled very clearly as actions with the appropriate CSS based roll over images and have a very descriptive text label so even if the style is removed its very clear what the link(action) will do.
They are also contained in an Actions panel which is placed (normally) top and bottom of the form.