[whatwg] <input usemap> (was: Re: [html5] HTMLMapElement.images)

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Wed Aug 8 07:34:10 PDT 2007


On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:54:33 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> Should we drop it? My research indicates there's an insignificant number
> of pages with usemap="" attributes on <input type=image> elements (on the
> order of 0.008%).

The only usecase, while using <input> as control, seems to be to make  
certain parts of the image not "clickable". Given that, it makes sense to  
me to reduce the number of attributes browsers have to implement for  
<input>...


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Anne van Kesteren
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