Quoting Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 6/13/06, Anne van Kesteren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Before I forget about this hereby a proposal to give the
HTMLMapElement interface a new (readonly) member called `images` or
equivalent representing an HTMLCollection consisting of
HTMLImageElement and HTMLObjectElement (and perhaps
HTMLCanvasElement?) elements that use that image map definition.
What's the use case?
Basically finding the position of the associated image elements so
that you can show "popups" and so more easily without hardcoding that
a particular image belongs to that map and vice versa.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=67731&action=view
... has a nice example (works in Internet Explorer only).
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Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>