This brings me back to the time of when I used Photoshop 5 to create the entire website design and layout, create slices, and export to HTML which was then by edited by Dreamweaver.
It's 2020 and I'm using image maps
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Re: It's 2020 and I'm using image maps
#52I still use tables for layouting because divs and messing with positioning/floating never really clicked for me.
Nothing wrong really. Tables used to sucks in IE era. But now IE is gone. Modern HTML Tables are fine as long as you know its limitations or basically dont try to do any fancy thing with it. For some strange reason I see people keep saying aviod table at all cost. I dont get it. May be someone could explain it better.
> Tables used to sucks in IE era.
No, that wasn't it. They didn't suck, and for a bunch of years IE was the best browser.
In the past there were no other options (no CSS positioning etc) so people used tables as a way to control content layout. They were actually pretty good for this, even though that's not what they were intended for.
Then CSS came along. Initially CSS was mostly exciting because it exposed a lot more fine-grained control over display properties like fonts, borders, margins etc than had been available in HTML attributes.
Gradually developers came to appreciate the value of what CSS was intended for - separation of content and presentation. Along with that realisation came the push for "semantic" markup, i.e. use appropriate HTML tags for the content, and stop using tables for layout (unless you are marking up actual tabular data).
For some years this was awkward though because CSS didn't provide good layout tools. So instead of true semantic markup you often ended up with "div soup" - lots of anonymous tags which exist just as containers for sake of achieving some hack with the CSS positioning system. And still a couple of things that had been simple to achieve with tables remained impossible.
But people persevered with the CSS hacks, for all the right reasons, until we get to the present day when I guess modern CSS has all the tools needed to produce any kind of layout, layouts that adapt to screen size, units that cope with Hi-DPI etc etc etc
But I think it's still appropriate to mark up tabular data in HTML with a table, and I would think they do a good job of that?
Re: It's 2020 and I'm using image maps
#53It's funny this came up. I've been doing webstuff and getting paid for it since about 1996 or 1997; imagemaps were a pretty big deal back then. Recently, I found myself thinking, "How do they do that these days?" I have gotten out of the webbish stuff and even before that, I tended to stick to the tried and true.
I don't think the need for something very much like imagemaps will ever go away. The lure of arbitrary polygons and paths cut from an image needing to be clickable is high, and I think the ability to join up a bunch of polygonal (or worse) images and have them well-aligned is far off. It's easier to cut up than to re-align.
Re: It's 2020 and I'm using image maps
#54The author seems to be have written this post based on work for an in-browser video editor ( https://videoinu.com/editor ). It runs completely on the client-side, so all the editing, previewing, rendering, and exporting is done using web technologies. Of course, it's not comparable to a professional editing tools but nevertheless that's very impressive achievement in my opinion!
> It runs completely on the client-side, so all the editing, previewing, rendering, and exporting is done using web technologies. If so, why just not use native desktop/mobile video editor app instead?
Because you'd have to download an app like this and then trust that it won't install malware or spyware or do anything else malicious.
Re: It's 2020 and I'm using image maps
#5590s starter pack: Framesets, image maps, marquees, blink, guestbooks, visit counters, "under construction", "webmaster", tiled backgrounds.
The weirdest: MIDI music on autoplay, VRML.
Re: It's 2020 and I'm using image maps
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It runs completely on the client-side, so all the editing, previewing, rendering, and exporting is done using web technologies. If so, why just not use native desktop/mobile video editor app instead?
Because you'd have to download an app like this and then trust that it won't install malware or spyware or do anything else malicious.
> Because you'd have to download an app like this and then trust that it won't install malware or spyware or do anything else malicious.
How you would check that web app, which JavaScript/WebAssembly source/binary should be firstly loaded into your browser from 3rd-party website, would not "install malware or spyware or do anything else malicious"?
Re: It's 2020 and I'm using image maps
#57I last used these in 2014 for a mobile web app that tracked muscle soreness. Worked like a charm, and I was also able to handle responsiveness with viewport aware JavaScript. I had to dig up an old copy of Fireworks to generate the polygons easily too.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because you'd have to download an app like this and then trust that it won't install malware or spyware or do anything else malicious.
> Because you'd have to download an app like this and then trust that it won't install malware or spyware or do anything else malicious. How you would check that web app, which JavaScript/WebAssembly source/binary should be firstly loaded into your browser from 3rd-party website, would not "install malware or spyware or do anything else malicious"?
That's as trustworthy as your web browser, which is pretty good at sandboxing nowadays.
Re: It's 2020 and I'm using image maps
#59I'm reminded of the first image map I ever saw -- Microsoft's 1994 homepage: https://www.versionmuseum.com/images/websites/microsoft-webs...
I remember seeing image maps for the first time as well. I can't remember exactly what they were for (possibly the Yahoo logo when it had circular buttons around it), but I distinctly remember the feeling of being able to click on an area of an image and something different happening.
It floored me at the time because it was, in my mind, when Dorothy opened the door to Oz and a huge, beautiful world just appeared before her.
It's very strange to be in an age group that gets to remember being in a world before and after image maps (among ALL the other tech that erupted in the last 30 years).
The best part of it is that as soon as we saw it.... we could reproduce it. I viewed-source and started creating my own image maps on my personal websites immediately. Then showed these to friends and family and they were so impressed :)
.... I find myself trying to recreate this feeling all the time.
Re: It's 2020 and I'm using image maps
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because you'd have to download an app like this and then trust that it won't install malware or spyware or do anything else malicious.
> Because you'd have to download an app like this and then trust that it won't install malware or spyware or do anything else malicious. How you would check that web app, which JavaScript/WebAssembly source/binary should be firstly loaded into your browser from 3rd-party website, would not "install malware or spyware or do anything else malicious"?
Modern browsers are pretty secure nowadays. By comparison, you have pretty much zero guarantees about an app you install onto your computer. The only concern is that these browser apps are quietly sending your files elsewhere, but this is easily inspectable via the dev tools.