- From: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 08:28:00 +0100
- To: "Jonathan Chetwynd" <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>, "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org>, "David Woolley" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Imagemaps need defining, ie by using co-ordinates, and this is confusing for user and author. one is having to draw at least twice. Having at least an option to define a colour as transparent and non-clickable is 'natural'. there is a further issue as to whether internal transparent areas be clickable, I can see no justification, as even with 256 colours one can select a similar but different colour. We have to accept that there is no way that we can design a system that will be failsafe. Even with the best of intentions, once there are a few movable images on a page, there are bound to be many juxtapositions that are hard to interpret. Clickable transparency makes almost any position difficult to interpret, without a complete understanding of the process. jonathan chetwynd IT teacher (LDD) j.chetwynd@btinternet.com http://www.peepo.com "The first and still the best picture directory on the web"
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