Re: ISMAP idea (?v4)

Brian Behlendorf (brian@wired.com)
Sun, 9 Apr 95 21:48:14 EDT

On Sun, 9 Apr 1995, James P H Coleman wrote:
> I know that this is not the right place for this but...
>
> When using an image/etc often I want the cursor to have hot areas such that
> when you move the mouse over a hot area, a piece of text is displayed. eg a
> photograph and as the mouse moves over a building, some text appears saying
> what the building is.
..
> Thoughts anyone?

Implemented wonderfully in HTML 3 using the <FIG> tag - the
implementation allows imagemap-challenged browsers to present a menu of
the options available. Check out
<URL:http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html/figures.html>

Brian

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