Hyperlinks (a href) have been outdated for a very long time

Question

I have felt that "a href" hyprlinks have been outdated for a very long time.
so much so that they should no longer be known to most developers (like frames and html based hyperlink maps)
the only thing they can do is cause a new page to load.
The event which causes this has to be a click (on an image, string of text or other compatable html object).
and the event itself has to be the loading of a new page.
by comparason by using javascript you can use ANY html attribute (Onclick, OnMouseover, OnMouseout ect) to trigger to event
or you can use ANY event listener to trigger the event.
You could also set these to only trigger under specific circumstances. (for example an onclick event followed by a mouse over at least 3 seconds later)
and the event which occurs can be anything
it could be a simple page change
or it could bea page change with a modificaton (such as a preloader displaying to hide the fact that the new page is loading)
or it could be a page change, or an animation, or anything else you can think of determined by an IF statemen
furthermore by using AJAX or JQUERY you can have an event which alters a database or SQL file or, in simple cases plain text file based on the users actions - and then determines the action it performs based on the content of the database or SQL file or text file
This coveres everything from very simple actions
to very complex dynamic actions which have an infininte range of possibilites
so
why are is a href still used?

Answer 1

I don't think any serious web developer can afford to make sweeping assumptions like this.  Anchor tags are stable and 100% reliable on all platforms & web devices.  It might surprise you to know that many people disable client-side scripts for security reasons.  How will these people interact with your site?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/
Nancy O.