Get Rid of the Submit Button

I am starting a movement against the Submit Button. Perhaps you've seen it. It's the annoying button at the end of every web page you visit that requires a button-click before anything happens. It's also in every window that comes up in your operating system. Sometimes it says Submit or Enter or Go or Yeah! They slow users down, and honestly, with computing prowess nowadays, They are not necessary.

And I'm not talking about Confirmation buttons. Confirmation is different. That's an event we want the end-user to participate in. Enter information, confirm, submit. But the typical submit button is simply requiring the user to click another button after they are done with whatever it is they were doing in the first place, to make life easier for the developers of the site. This button is now irrelevant with today's technology.

How do you get rid of it? Use AJAX or a similar Rich Internet Application technology (i.e. Silverlight or Adobe Flex). Instead of triggering events on a button click, they should be triggered on the completion of a particular form element or a key stroke. This is not hard to do with today's programming languages. It may require a couple more lines of code to handle the idiosyncrasies, but at the end of the day, the extra work for the developer will pay dividends over the work required by the users.

Please, do a friend a favor and remove the submit button, be Green and Save a Click.

Use the comments below if you think I am wrong, I will be happy to respond.