Night of the Image Map (12 Dec 2003)

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Night of the Image Map (12 Dec 2003)
In the old days, before we thought much about web standards or the importance of accessibility, web designers used image maps to quickly divide a single image into regions, and link those regions to separate URLs. Traditional image maps, though, don’t work well with text-only browsers, and they aren’t as efficient or versatile as many newer techniques. You might still find them in use on an old web page or perhaps some kind of complex map, but most web designers would consider it an old technique. A dead one.

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