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This predates my own web developer journey by a good 15 years, and I found one feature that I'm unsure about how it ever worked. Navigating to "Virtual Field T
by cupofjoakim 2y ago
This predates my own web developer journey by a good 15 years, and I found one feature that I'm unsure about how it ever worked.
Navigating to "Virtual Field Trips" takes you to http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/maps/butbar.map http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/maps/butbar.map .
At this page you're greeted with what I take is instructions to paint out a frameset?
```
rect index.html 0 0 79 49
rect navnew/navigator.html 80 0 159 49
rect virtual.field.trips.html 160 0 239 49
rect http://radlab.soest.hawaii.edu/satlab http://radlab.soest.hawaii.edu/satlab 240 0 319 49
rect feedback.html 320 0 399 49
```
It's obviously "shape src x y width height" (or swapped around).
I'm having issues finding a resource that explains what this is and why it seemingly worked in a browser in the 90's but not now - i.e. when it was deprecated and to what degree it was supported prior. Does anyone know more?
- mholt 2y agoWhere is that link from? I get an actual HTML page when I go to virtual field trips. Anyway, it looks like an image map.
- dylan604 2y agoClicking on the rect link goes 404. At first I thought image map, but looking at the MDN article makes me think not. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/map https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...
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- kccqzy 2y agoI thought it was an earlier syntax for the <map> area but apparently not. The earliest syntax is already identical to the current syntax: https://www.actionpa.org/internet/html_extensions_3.html https://www.actionpa.org/internet/html_extensions_3.html
- skykooler 2y agoIs it VRML or something related?
- cupofjoakim 2y agoThe syntax seem to differ, so I don't think so