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Wow, I knew this was there but hadn't opened the console before. Quite the throwback. <center>? <nobr>? <font>?! Neat. I'd never seen a <map> tag either: https

• CiaranMcNulty 12y ago
  You kids... I was the king of <MAP> back in the day
  • balls187 12y ago
    And I was your trusted adviser. Hand selecting x,y points was all the rage in the mid 90's.
  • JshWright 12y ago
    Oh man... I'm having flashbacks to how badly that tag got abused... Who needs HTML? Just create the layout in photoshop, export the whole thing to a flat image, and map all the links...
    • yuhong 12y ago
      At least it is not as bad as the older server side image maps.
    • Retra 12y ago
      I bet blind people would love that!
• TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
  Even today <map> is useful and good at what it does for, say, interactive maps. Which is why it hasn't been removed.
  • ddoolin 12y ago
    Yeah. I was pleasantly surprised to open the MDN doc page and not see a deprecation notice.
• 7sigma 12y ago
  some of the comments made me chuckle: <!-- Badda Bing, Badda Boom --> <!-- Technology, Shmechnology. --> <!-- Congress shall make no law, etc., etc. --> <!-- The Sitemap, for those unable to figure out the site. --> <!-- Go ahead and jump. Might as well jump. -->
• catshirt 12y ago
  damn, i am getting old. for better or worse i'd say there was a whole year i made websites using nothing but the map tag.
• 27182818284 12y ago
  >I'd never seen a <map> tag either: It is always a good idea to learn about old technologies. Probably the most eloquent reasoning why came from Feynman's "Know how to solve every problem that has been solved." With the exception of the startup I did, I would characterize most of my experience as a developer in life as working with legacy code. It gets a bad reputation, but at the same time I now have a lot of insight.
• drawnalong 12y ago
  Jeff Bridges makes extensive use of <map> in his webpage. I am unsure if this is apocryphal, but I'm told he makes the whole site himself. jeffbridges.com