- From: Philip Taylor <philip@zaynar.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:09:52 +0100
- To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- CC: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Robert Burns wrote: > The difference between <input usemap> and <img usemap> is the same as > the difference between <input type='image'> and <img>. [...] > What would YOU say are the differences between THESE: > <input type="image"> and <img>? When you click on an <img>, nothing happens - it's just a non-interactive image. When you click on an <input type=image>, the input's form is submitted with the mouse coordinates added as 'x' and 'y' - it's an image and a server-side image map and a form-submission button. <input type=image> is closer to <a href><img ismap></a> - in that case, both are server-side image maps, and the difference is that <img ismap> does a GET request with just the x and y arguments, while <input type=image> does a form submission with all the form's other input values in addition to the new x and y. So the differences with <img ismap> are "one can only do GET" and "one submits all the form's other input values too", and I can't see any way for those differences to apply to client-side image maps (i.e. usemap) since client-side image maps are never associated with forms. -- Philip Taylor philip@zaynar.demon.co.uk
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