- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:07:57 +1000
- To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- CC: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Robert Burns wrote: > The assumption may be wrong or it may be right. The point is, it just > doesn't matter. Let's assume that all of these authors were just typing > randomly and happened to type <input type='image' usemap='*'>. Then the > number of authors trying to use this HTML 4.01 feature that has not been > implemented is 0%. Please try to understand that there is a significant difference between trying to use a specific feature and trying to fulfil a use case. We are looking for valid, significant and convincing use cases for which client side image maps should be used for form submission. So far, no significant and convincing use cases or real world occurrence of that functionality have been demonstrated. There are ways that authors could provide this functionality, such as through scripting [1] or using image slices. Authors are generally very creative when it comes to working around browser limitations, and thus I find your argument based on the lack of implementations to be deceptive and unimaginative. As some real world examples of such creativity, what do you think authors used to fulfil the use case of fetching external data over the web using scripts before XMLHttpRequest() became so widely implemented? Or how do you think authors currently embed and provide custom contols for videos without the <video> element? The point is that you need to think and look outside of the box to see evidence for use cases, not necessarily evidence for a specific feature being used. The point of looking at the usemap examples that have been presented was to see what use cases they are currently using <input usemap> for. Since virtually none of those appear to be using it for anything remotely useful which isn't provided through other means, you now need to look elsewhere to support your case. [1] http://shadow2531.com/opera/testcases/imagemaps/002.html -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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