USEMAP & JAVE

[The Big Glee Bopper]

Here is a portion I've just trimmed out of a resume imagemap I use using
USEMAP with Netscape 2.0. Image maps _without_ ismap and the cgi-bin. 


<IMG SRC="../images/ThomHomePage.gif" USEMAP="#resumeMap"> 
Here USEMAP is referencing my coordinates later in the program via NAME=

...

[Later in the page...]
<MAP NAME=resumeMap> 

<AREA SHAPE=rect COORDS="0,186 133,202" 
HREF="http://www.indiana.edu/~slizzard/resume/education.html"> 

<AREASHAPE=rect COORDS="0,211 133,224" 
HREF="http://www.indiana.edu/~slizzard/resume/experience.html"> 

</MAP>

You have to think a little differently but it means less call backs to 
the distant system somewhere. Sure beats trying to badger a sys admin for 
root permissions or something close. 

Java will do the same and it means buttons which actually respond with
feedback. The hotJava browser for win95 is pretty nifty. Essentially the
interface elements are on the local machine for response and feedback and
the data is distributed in the background. 

No idea where the IBM guy came up with his 15 minute figures because I 
count the download runtime in seconds. Maybe if you created an entire 
application and downloaded all the interface and all the data, 
essentially an entire web site, but that is not how the code should or 
will be written. Java is object-oriented, not function, data oriented.

--Thom