Agreed. However, with the separate images you can put them in an unordered list yourself to control the display a bit more closely.
I'm not saying any of these are 100% good all the time. I like to soak up as many different techniques as possible and choose the one that is the most appropriate for the task. On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Mathew Robertson < mathew.blair.robert...@gmail.com> wrote: > That is unnecessary - <area>'s support alt. With both CSS and images > disabled, a useragent should be able to draw the USA-map graphically using a > fallback css; if using a text-browser, it could render it as a list -> > whether they actually do, is an entirely different problem, ie: if an image > has 'usemap' (and a map exists with alt attributes) then the text-browser > could assume that a flat list could be rendered. > > Aside: the spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#h-13.6) says > "... with a mouse..." > > regards, > Mathew Robertson > > > On 15 October 2010 10:43, Christian Snodgrass <csnodgrass3...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> That map also illustrates the problem with image maps. >> >> Disable images and refresh the page. It becomes completely unusable >> (granted there are ways to make the image map work better with no images, >> but this is the more common situation). >> >> If they were all separate images with their own alt tags, they could form >> a nice little list of states when there are no images. >> >> > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
