[whatwg] Image maps: should we drop <a coords="">?
fantasai
fantasai.lists at inkedblade.net
Mon Apr 11 13:59:20 PDT 2005
Ian Hickson wrote:
> Client-side with <a> (doesn't work in WinIE6, works in Moz, Opera):
>
> <img usemap="#foo"> (or <object usemap="#foo"></object>)
> <map id="foo">
> ...
> <a coords="..." ...></a>
> </map>
>
> I couldn't find any uses of <a coords="">. (Data based
> on a sample of over 600,000 randomly chosen sites.)
I'd guess that's because of the WinIE6 holdup. Hardly anyone designs
a site that won't work in WinIE6.
> I propose we drop <a coords=""> from HTML5. While it is definitely a
> better design than <area>, it isn't a substantially better design, and
> having both is confusing. Since here we have a case where one of the
> options is rarely used (if at all), I believe we can take the opportunity
> to prune the spec without ill effect. (In contrast, in the <button> vs
> <input type="submit"> case, we couldn't drop either because they were
> both heavily used.)
>
> Anyone want us to keep <a coords="">?
If Moz and Opera support it, then it already passes CR criteria.
Besides, you shouldn't be obsoleting things without letting them go through
the deprecation stage. No?
~fantasai
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