It's incredible how we said the same argument in pre-web 2.0 days. People loved to write code like

    <a href="javascript:open('http://example.com')">bla</a>

I haven't seen these obscenities for a long time.

He says this is a rant, but it isn't. It's a thoughtful criticism of a common but bad practice. But I'm very sympathetic to the criticism since this has long been on my pet peeves list.