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Posted by dorayme on 12/29/06 22:42
In article <4vkq2eF1ch43sU1@mid.individual.net>,
Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote:
> dorayme wrote:
> > In article <4vh3n8F1bqclhU1@mid.individual.net>,
> > Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to figure out what your page does.
> >
> > Fair enough, you mean if you suddenly landed in it by mistake...
> > I was tidying up old things (some way to go I guess):
> >
> > I assume you are saying accessibility markup is left out. This is
> > the sort of thing I was interested in. I almost never use image
> > maps these days... but still, as an exercise, refurbishing some
> > old stuff, I am wondering about it and must put it in for good
> > form. Not that it would be likely to help anyone really in this
> > particular case. But in more serious cases, yes...
>
> Actually, what I meant was that I didn't know what a web page that has
> nothing on it but a MAP would be for. Although it just now occurred to
> me--the USEMAP attribute can take a full URL, can't it? I've only seen
> it as usemap="#somefragment" but it only now comes to me that it could
> just as easily be usemap="somepage#somefragment". In that case the MAP
> on it can be "called" like a subroutine from other pages, instead of
> having to repeat the map on each of those pages. Is that how you were
> using it?
You will find examples of the rare use I have ever made of client
side <map>s at
<http://tinyurl.com/ym2slq> on "pages" 9 and 10 of the story.
and
<http://tinyurl.com/yjamlr> on page 17 over the deliberately
unmarked link over the words in brackets "(pages 10 to 13)"
I give you these to set some context to the use of the client
side <map>. I think it is an apt enough use of it.
I also think the use of JS popups on page 9 and 10 is apt but I
mention in case you have JS off for that particular url. Happily
enough, I have iCab set up to open popups in separate tabs, it is
not as nice aesthetically, but it is quite convenient for keeping
ones place after having persused the different and beatiful fonts
enlarged. I don't particularly like the idea of sending folk off
to a separate page for the enlargements but... it is probably the
sort of thing i would do if I was starting from scratch. I could
do it now... but you know what? I rather like having a few
examples of things in my stable... "Here is my JS page, here are
popups" Perhaps museum pieces!
[As I have said, I am not sure I would do all this this way these
days. Just doing the minimum to tidy up these two old stories
prepared for print (and other personal things over the Xmas
break!). I even forget how I prepared the pics for the web, I may
even have scanned the booklet that was made of the stories? I am
noticing all sorts of things from this exercise, eg. that IE 6 is
not too bad at rendering the gifs, but iCab is terrible, Safari
the best in terms of smoothness and no bit map jaggie effect...
anyway, all by the way...]
Hope you can see something, I am fiddling about with it...
--
dorayme
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