On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:36:18 -0000, Charles Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the standards use of the
<map> and <area> tags (like I'm doing here on the 2007 image of the
left column:
W3C says: "try to avoid server-side image maps" [xhtml]
If it is using area elements, then its a client side image map.
a better setup (IMHO), is to use a "definition list",
drop your image in the background of the <dl>, giving it the image size,
use <dt> and 3 <dd>'s in a two row setup to overlay the image.
add text [no display] and links, ... your in business.
Suffers from the usual problems of FIR. i.e. No alt text if images are
disabled and no content screen readers can get to.
It also uses the rather dubious practise of having of a definition list as
a generic key/values list.
Also, I don't understand what content you expect to put in the term and
what values you expect to put in the descriptions.
--
David Dorward
<http://dorward.me.uk/> - Freshly redesigned
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