Paul Graham's website uses image maps for the nav bar, it's the only place I can recall seeing them off the top of my head.
omnibrain 2 hours ago [-]
IIRC the Apple website used to use (client side image maps) them. But I suspect that was Mai my so they could do some research where users actually click on their screen.
Nition 4 hours ago [-]
That one's a client-side image map.
perilunar 3 hours ago [-]
And completely unnecessary. Should be a list of text links.
varenc 7 hours ago [-]
fun fact: source maps are used by some Tor onion sites ("dark net") as part of a captcha process without using JavaScript. If you present the user with an image, and ask them to click on a particular part of it, the server can recieve exactly where they clicked and validate if that's correct without using JS at all. (JS is a big no-no on Tor hidden network sites)
40four 2 hours ago [-]
That actually makes a lot of sense, and it helps me wrap my head around why the technique exists at all. As someone who didn’t get into web programming until 2015 or so, I didn’t quite understand at first the usefulness of this. But for sites like this built in the 90’s it was a totally different world
hdjrudni 41 minutes ago [-]
There's probably some efficiency to it too. Encoding a dozen images as one and load them in one request will be quicker than 12 separate images each with their own overhead.
noduerme 4 hours ago [-]
Whoa. I remember using client-side image maps in web design in the 90s, although once Photoshop introduced slices (<table> with rollover javascript hovers inlined in your html!), it mostly put an end to that.
I never heard of anyone, ever, using server-side image maps. Not with an Apache server, anyway. Maybe once something with Adobe ColdFusion.
I wonder whether this was sort of am ad-hoc copy protection scheme for these icons?
alexpotato 6 hours ago [-]
I will occasionally mentor folks of varying ages.
They usually end up talking to me because some project or career path they were on didn't work out how they were expecting.
I mention this b/c at some point I ask them: "Hey, do you have a blog post or website about this failed project?"
They usually say "yes, but who would want to hear about this??"
Me: "You would be ASTOUNDED at what people find interesting. Success or failure, there is always something to be learned from someone else trying to solve a problem."
Hopefully, we see more of these writeups as they are VERY inspirational (successful stories like this one or not)
6 hours ago [-]
pizzaiolo 9 hours ago [-]
When I was a kid I had a Geocities-style website hosted on hpg.com.br which was wholly composed of animated GIFs, mostly Pokemon-related.
Very unfortunate that archive.org doesn't have a copy of it.
I really love that the source-extension icons are all different, and resemble the files contents - .c indentation, .h mostly linear, .s assembly instructions, ".o" bits
noduerme 4 hours ago [-]
Lol at the design decision that the 44x38 penis should naturally expand vertically.
superxpro12 3 hours ago [-]
when pixels matter....
superxpro12 3 hours ago [-]
i was getting kind of annoyed by all the gender-ism in the first 30 pages... only naked women... this re-balances the equation and i am disarming myself of my pitchfork.
Supported since forever.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
I never heard of anyone, ever, using server-side image maps. Not with an Apache server, anyway. Maybe once something with Adobe ColdFusion.
I wonder whether this was sort of am ad-hoc copy protection scheme for these icons?
They usually end up talking to me because some project or career path they were on didn't work out how they were expecting.
I mention this b/c at some point I ask them: "Hey, do you have a blog post or website about this failed project?"
They usually say "yes, but who would want to hear about this??"
Me: "You would be ASTOUNDED at what people find interesting. Success or failure, there is always something to be learned from someone else trying to solve a problem."
Hopefully, we see more of these writeups as they are VERY inspirational (successful stories like this one or not)
Very unfortunate that archive.org doesn't have a copy of it.
It'd be nice to have some way to browse the pages without constantly hunting for the Next button.
https://www.ibiblio.org/gio/iconbrowser/icons/icons38.html