The HTML specification is old and, while there is beauty in longevity, there's an inevitable build-up of boondoggles and baggage. Some elements like have sadly been consigned to the dustbin of history - but there are still vestigial attributes just waiting to trip up the unwary. If you're young, you may never have heard of Image Maps. Back in the bad-old-days, there weren't many good…
Esoteric HTML - ismap vs CSS
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/09/esoteric-html-ismap-vs-css/
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vk6flab@lemmy.radio · 10 pts · 4d
23 years ago, I wrote a mapping engine using image maps and clickable gifs. I had it to the point where I could draw a country with roads, towns and labels, you could zoom in and out, and I dealt with the different types of projections.
Then Google Maps came out.
sik0fewl@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 4d
I definitely forgot all about image maps. I never used
ismap, butusemapwith<area>and a list of boundaries with a link.