[Bug 9061] allow image maps on the canvas element.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9061


steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>  2010-03-31 21:54:24 ---
(In reply to comment #2)
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> Status: Rejected
> Change Description: no spec change
> Rationale: Unfortunately if we provide this we will be causing authors huge
> headaches, because while it would be possible to use canvas with image maps for
> the most trivial of pictures (pictures much better rendered on the server
> side), it becomes vastly more complicated to use image maps to do the slightest
> dynamic work once the canvas is made in any way more advanced. For example, any
> use of transforms, any use of large strokes, anything animated, etc, quickly
> makes it inordinately difficult to use image maps. In the meantime, all the use
> cases of image maps are trivially handled today using the API.
> 
> Therefore I think it would be a design mistake to do this.
> 


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