[html5] Help Digest, Vol 61, Issue 7

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, HORVÁTH-MILITICSI Attila wrote:
>
> I would like to have an answer to a problem that eats me starting from 1999.
> THen I was in Budapest on an informatics seminary and there we where presented
> to the (then) new E-Mac. The trick was that we had seen a photo of some farm
> with a tree, a bird on the tree, and a cow nearby. When you clicked on the
> tree you heard the wind, when you clicked on the bird you heard : MOOOO and
> when on the cow you heard the bird. This was good enough for a joke, but the
> principle could be used with an image of a car, with some 30 parts:  by
> clicking on number 21 one would see "windwasher" or by clicking on the
> expression "windwasher"  to see clicketing the number 21 on the photo. But I
> don't had any success with this page mapping. Could you help me, please ?

This should be relatively easy to do now. You can use an image map to 
describe the image, with <area> elements triggering <audio> cues onclick, 
for the first example. For the second, where the image has to be animated 
somewhat, you probably want something similar in SVG.

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