On 6/3/09, Tim Savage tim.sav...@poweredbypenguins.org wrote:
I've been playing around with this idea recently. Image maps are quite
flexible, not only can you title attributes etc but since they are part of
the DOM you can attach javascript events to them. For a recent client which
an online
From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]
On Behalf Of Brett Patterson
Sent: 01 June 2009 15:35
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Image mapping standards question
It has recently come to my attention the struggles of an end-user when
Brett Patterson wrote:
I meant that rather than using image mapping for hyperlinks, you
could use it to (sort of) point out a particular part of an image, as
if you wanted to show someone who can see which person in a picture
is you if they hover their mouse over that image map. And you can use
At 6/1/2009 07:34 AM, Brett Patterson wrote:
It has recently come to my attention the struggles of an end-user
when viewing images for any user. I have seen sites such as
Facebook, MySpace, and other sites where pictures are hosted use
roll-overs for recognizing certain parts of an image. I
Perhaps you are looking for something like this:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssmaps/
Rather than an image map, it uses a definition list with the image as
a background and the text positioned off-screen, so the information is
still available for screenreaders.
On 6/3/09, Paul Novitski
I've been playing around with this idea recently. Image maps are quite
flexible, not only can you title attributes etc but since they are part of
the DOM you can attach javascript events to them. For a recent client which
an online fashion store they had images of models wearing their garments and
It has recently come to my attention the struggles of an end-user when
viewing images for any user. I have seen sites such as Facebook, MySpace,
and other sites where pictures are hosted use roll-overs for recognizing
certain parts of an image. I realize that this can be done using image maps
as
