- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:28:44 +1000
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > 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). Interesting. The concept is a lot like these examples in recent A List Apart article: http://alistapart.com/articles/cssmaps * http://alistapart.com/d/cssmaps/stickymap/ * http://alistapart.com/d/cssmaps/multiple/ The difference with those, however, is that they're not marked up using <map>, but rather the map is a background image with list items positioned over the top. I've been thinking about this a little since that article was published and I think we need to work on improving the semantics and functionality of <map>, so that it can handle things like that easily, without excessive CSS positioning and JavaScript. Being able to semantically associate areas on a map with related content that can then be shown in a variety of ways, such as a tooltip on hover or click. It would also be cool if it were easier to do something like the many similar features found in Google Maps. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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