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I was really surprised by this so I had to check by myself. This is true! And I never learned that all the time I roamed the Internet. Thanks for spreading arc
by yoha 11y ago
I was really surprised by this so I had to check by myself. This is true! And I never learned that all the time I roamed the Internet.
Thanks for spreading arcane knowledge!
- junto 11y agoYou obviously never had the misfortune to deal with image maps - the Ramsey Bolton Bastard brother of Flash. :-)
- MichaelGG 11y agoThey were very popular before that. I recall finding great use for them around 97. Easiest way to have complicated graphical navigation.
- junto 11y agoAll was find until you had to define clickable areas as polygons. Urrrrgh.
- snowwrestler 11y agoImage maps were the best. We could have a clickable map of the U.S. that was fast-loading, cross-browser compatible, and did not require a plugin. What's not to like? Today the way to do that is with javascript libraries like D3.js, which handle both drawing the map and detecting/directing clicks. That was not an option 8 years ago; javascript was too slow.
- krapp 11y agoImagemaps were fun ages ago - and animating imagemap menus with javascript was even more fun. No one would bother with such things today when CSS has animation and whatnot.
- yoha 11y agoI actually did, but only with <map>, never <input type=image>.
- leesalminen 11y agoI may or may not have used this in 2007 on a map of the counties of NY state. Perhaps a decade later than I should've, but it works well to this day!