- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 21:12:22 -0500
- To: public-html@w3.org
On 3/5/15 7:04 PM, Andrea Rendine wrote: > Coordinates in area elements are absolute > and refer to distances and measures in pixels I believe in HTML 4 coordinates could be percentages and no one ever implemented that... Would that help things somewhat? > It can't be a matter of lacking interest on the part of authors and/or > vendors: if the element is not usable as it is *today*, then of course > nobody can effectively use it and vendors don't guess too much about an > unused feature. The element wasn't used much at all for many years before people worried about responsive design... I've never quite understood why, since it _is_ in fact pretty useful, but that's the way it was. -Boris
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