Modern use of image maps
I was asked to match the list as up to date as possible for Image Maps.
When they first appeared, web designers in the 90s used them as one of the first ways to create more immersive experiences, but now in a few days they can be tied into javascript and jquery to do all sorts of "exciting" tasks. Many of their possible uses have been replaced by flash, but I'm trying to find the latest implementations that use imagemaps really neatly, along with their URLs.
The best I can do is a map highlight plugin for jquery , although unfortunately recent releases don't seem to work with IE8. If that were the case, it would be very impressive.
Hopefully someone wrote some kind of cartographic map themselves and could show it here. Many thanks.
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I haven't used an age-old image map ... where can I get away, I just snap links to the background image.
A single Map image can do what CSS and XHTML cannot (reliably) - polygons and circles. You could argue that you can place a few hundred 1px links to create a circle, but this solution is ugly, bloated, and more of a problem than just using an image map.
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