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Attribute behavior that depends on CSS layout size rather than an element's natural or declared size is a design trap web authors should avoid relying on.

Drawn from what Terence Eden said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

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  1. Terence Eden

    British open-standards and open-source technologist

    Basically, what I'm saying is, don't use ismap unless you're absolutely sure that there will be no CSS shenanigans. Even then, it probably isn't worth the risk.

    Where this was said

    ↗Esoteric HTML - ismap vs CSSshkspr.mobi

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