Advantages in new imagemap.c

Advantage in new imagemap.c are

• Users of imagemapping no longer need to bother the system administrator because they don't need to do anything with the server configuration files.

• Basically the imagemap.conf file is no longer needed.

• Your virtual URLs will work in this version. This kind of URL is a virtual pathname to a file on your server (i.e. a URL to your server without the http://hostname part)

• Your #-ed URLs will also work.

• A new method called point has been added.

  • Description

    The point method implements the "closest point wins" scheme. So if different point methods are specified, the url is chosen according to the point closest to the click.

  • Format

    point url coordinate
    

• Backward Compatibility is provided so the old imagemaps will still work fine.

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