- From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:06:18 +0000 (GMT)
- To: brian@organic.com (Brian Behlendorf)
- Cc: MACRIDES@sci.wfbr.edu, www-html@w3.org
Brian Behlendorf said: > On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Foteos Macrides wrote: > > There is nothing in the HTML 2.0 or subsequent protocols which > > makes image maps via IMG tags adequately accessible to non-GUI clients. > Sure, but the imagemap functionality on the server-side could. When > a client makes a request to a map resource without coordinates, the cgi > program (or the functionality in the server if the imagemap-functionality > is built-in) could return a menu of the links available instead of the > silly "your browser does not support imagemaps" error message. Yes, this is a simple addition to make. We have been running such a modified cgi program since August 95. I have put together a page that demonstrates this [1] but those of you who are unable to display pages without images ;-) may prefer to go direct to the explanation [2] which also has links to download the source. I tested this with emacs-w3 (an old version, 2.1.90), lynx (also old, v2.3), and Netscape 2.0N for X (with inline image loading disabled). [1] http://www.man.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/test/maps.html [2] http://www.man.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/test/textonly.html -- Chris Lilley, Technical Author and JISC representative to W3C +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Manchester and North Training & Education Centre ( MAN T&EC ) | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Computer Graphics Unit, Email: Chris.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk | | Manchester Computing Centre, Voice: +44 161 275 6045 | | Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Fax: +44 161 275 6040 | | M13 9PL BioMOO: ChrisL | | Timezone: UTC URI: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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