[whatwg] Image maps: should we drop <a coords="">?
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Mon Apr 11 15:26:21 PDT 2005
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > Anyone want us to keep <a coords="">?
>
> The reason I especially liked it was:
>
> <object data="foo" usemap="#foo">
> <map id="foo">
> <ul>
> <li><a coords="...">...</a>
> ...
Yup, it is indeed nice; if image maps had been designed that way from the
start it would make sense. But it's not _that_ much nicer than <area>,
which we could define as allowing:
<object data="foo" usemap="#foo">
<map id="foo">
<ul>
<li><area coords="..." href="..."><a href="...">...</a>
...
...which isn't much worse, and has the very important benefit of actually
working in IE6.
> By the way, will it be deprecated, not mentioned or forbidden? Will
> Mozilla and Opera drop support for it?
My proposal is to not mention it (and thus make its use non-conforming in
HTML5 documents). UAs would be within their rights to keep on supporting
it, though.
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