Re: Implementation Query: <MAP> with mixed <AREA> <A> !?

Sat, Oct 23, 1999 ve 01:55:18AM +0100 Ian Hickson wrote:


# The following is valid XHTML:

According to the DTDs it's not:

# 
#    <p><img src="x" alt="text" usemap="#map" /></p>
#    <map id="map">
#       <p><a href="#a" shape="rect" coords="10,10,20,20">A</a></p>
#       <area href="#b" shape="rect" coords="30,30,40,40">B</area>

area element is empty. There is attribute "alt" instead.

#    </map>


 
# But, assuming images are disabled or the UA does not support images,
# how should the above be rendered?
# 
# With the content model of MAP in HTML4 this was not an issue, since in
# that case AREAs and other content could not be mixed in MAP elements.
# Previously, if the MAP contained only AREA elements then the AREA elements
# would be turned into a menu and would replace the IMG altogether, and if
# the MAP contained mix content then the IMG would be replaced by its alt
# text, made inert, and the MAP would be renderered inline where it appeared
# in the document.
# 

4.01 spec is really unclear about that.
According to the above logic (and also the logic of html 4.0x)you should 
both render the MAP and show the menu of AREAs. I think you should add a
menu entry for a link to the rendered MAP.

kind regards,

  Pavel Nejedly
  pnejedly@gvid.cz

Received on Sunday, 24 October 1999 11:00:28 UTC