[whatwg] MAP should be transparent

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
>
> The MAP element should be transparent.
> 
> If it contains only AREA elements, it is invisible and it can belong to 
> phrasing content; it is best placed alongside the IMG element that uses 
> it; even the example 
> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html#the-map-element> 
> provided is invalid 
> <http://validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.2a.pl%2F%7Ene01026%2Fimagemap.htm>; 
> it is an undocumented deviation from version 4 
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/dtd.html#special> (content model 
> deviations are undocumented).  AREA elements should not belong to any 
> category; they can appear only as immediate children of the MAP element 
> (otherwise they are ignored per HTML4 so we can safely make them 
> invalid).
> 
> If it contains anything else, it must contain flow content for legacy 
> reasons; therefore, it must belong to flow content.

I've changed this so <map> is flow/phrasing and transparent. I'm not a big 
fan of this, as it joins a, ins, and del in making the definition of 
"paragraph" a pain in the behind.


> (I am aware of the fact that AREA elements are slightly deprecated.)

<area> is not deprecated in any sense.


> Editorial: The title of 4.8.11 
> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-elem 
> ent.html> The canvas element - HTML 5 should be changed to something 
> more appropriate - the page displays also subsection 4.8.12.

Philip?

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