Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ISMAP/USEMAP alt text

[Klaus Weide]

On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Scott McGee (Personal) wrote:
> Klaus Weide <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >The appended patch gives for
> >
> >  <A HREF="http://www.slcc.edu/cgi-bin/imagemap/maps/hp_menu.map";>
> >  <IMG SRC="http://www.slcc.edu/maps/hp_menu.gif"; HEIGHT=252
> >  WIDTH=187 ALT="[Menu]" BORDER="0" ALIGN="middle" USEMAP="#hp_menu"
> >  ISMAP></A>
> >
> >the following display:
> >
> >       \    Numbers act as arrows     Links are numbered
> >         +-----------------------------------------------------------
> > '*' OFF |  [Menu]                    [1][2][Menu]
> >         |
> > '*' ON  |  [ISMAP]-[Menu]-[IMAGE]    [2][ISMAP]-[3][Menu]-[4][IMAGE]
> >
> >Good enough?
> >
> Great! If I could ask one minor change, it would be:
> 
>  '*' OFF |  [Menu]                    [1][Menu][2]
>          |
>  '*' ON  |  [Menu]-[ISMAP]-[IMAGE]    [2][Menu]-[3][ISMAP]-[4][IMAGE]
> 
> but I'll take your changes as if if need be. Thanks.

That may look like a minor change in appearance, but it would require
major changes in the code.  At the point where the IMG tag is processed,
the A in front of it (which starts an anchor) has already been passed on
to the next stage.  All my patch does is prevent the generation of the
"[ISMAP]" anchor text (if clickable_images are not wanted), but the link
is still there... It just cannot be selected with the cursor keys, but
it still gets a "link number" and appears on the 'L' LIST, like any
<A HREF=...></A> link without anchor text between <A> and </A>.

  Klaus

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