borders on images

[The Big Glee Bopper]

On Mon, 23 Oct 1995, Michael Haseltine wrote:

> What sort of images or figures are allowed to have the border= attribute?
> I've seen (and used) it with the img tag, but I gather that it's not strict
> HTML, from one of the checkers. I works, at least with Netscape, but in the
> interests of keeping 'proper', what kind of tag can I use to say border=0.
> In the particular instance I'm working on, it's only a small icon, but I
> don't want a blue box around it!

There is a difference between you not wanting a blue border and the users 
who expect a blue box to indicate a clickable space. Image maps are bad 
enough since there is almost no feedback. In most pc/mac based software 
the clickable button _greys_ to provide feedback. If you eliminate the 
blue box you'll need to user test this to figure how many folks will miss 
the link. If you watch people using web pages on a graphical browser what 
they do is _ignore_ most information looking for the link. If you _hide_ 
the link many will miss it.

--Thom