external imagemap

[joerg p]

hello,

is there a possibilty to create an external imagemap?

joerg

 

[Els]

hello,
Hi,

is there a possibilty to create an external imagemap?

What is an external imagemap?

 

[brucie]

In alt.html joerg p said:

hello,
g'day

is there a possibilty to create an external imagemap?

reliably you can do a server side imagemap but theres probably no
support for external client side imagemaps, never done one to see what
browser support is like but i suspect zero.

there are usability/accessibility issues with imagemaps so you probably
don't want to use one anyway

 

[brucie]

In alt.html Els said:

What is an external imagemap?

where the map is in an external file pointed to by the usemap attribute
rather than the map being in the same file as the image that uses it
(like normal).

 

[Els]

In alt.html Els said:


where the map is in an external file pointed to by the
usemap attribute rather than the map being in the same file
as the image that uses it (like normal).

Thanks

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

theres probably no
support for external client side imagemaps, never done one to see what
browser support is like but i suspect zero.

Well, sufficiently close to zero. There's nothing in the specifications
that prevents from writing <img .. usemap="foo.html#map">, but browsers
haven't bothered implementing it. Implementation review:
http://www.w3.org/People/mimasa/test/imagemap/results
(Paradoxically, some text-only browsers support external client-side
imagemaps, graphic browsers don't.)

there are usability/accessibility issues with imagemaps so you probably
don't want to use one anyway

Indeed. The crystal ball tells that the reason for asking that the OP
wants to have a navigation bar on all pages, implemented as an image map.
That's a bad idea even if we don't consider the problem that the map
needs to be duplicated (which is really a small problem when e.g. SSI
includes are available - the other problems are much more serious).

 

[brucie]

In alt.html Jukka K. Korpela said:

(Paradoxically, some text-only browsers support external client-side
imagemaps, graphic browsers don't.)

i don't know if i should laugh or cry

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

In alt.html Jukka K. Korpela said:


i don't know if i should laugh or cry

Try laughing. They say it's good for your health, so in borderline cases,
laugh as a maniac.