I was able to recreate my situation with text and bg images. I am fascinated how this thread grew. All great things to keep in mind. TY all.
Sent from my iPod On Oct 15, 2010, at 3:35 AM, Jayachandran Kandasamy <jayachandran.kandas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am encountering a strange problem in image mapping technique, > > I have mapped a certain area of an image using polygon tool and picked the > coordinates, I applied mouseover event to swap the image but I am able to see > the white dashed border along with the image during the output this problem > only exist in the IE 7,8 browser. > > Is this happening due to the improper closing of the mapping (start and end > point of mapping must be at the same place of coordinates ) > > I cant find any suitable fix in google please suggest me on this how to > overcome this issue > > Thanks, > JC > > > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Christian Snodgrass > <csnodgrass3...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > ******************************************************************* > > > ******************************************************************* > 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 *******************************************************************
