Client Versus Server Image Maps
Image maps can be client-side, server-side, or both. By default, Cosmo
Create generates image maps that are both, so that your image maps can
be used by as many different browser types as possible.
Here's the difference:
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Client-side image maps can be interpreted by the browser.
The image map information is inserted directly into your HTML file. The
advantages to this method are that it makes for faster processing when
someone clicks on a link, and allows browsers that can detect when the
cursor is over a hotspot or not to provide the user with link
information. Not all browsers support client-side image maps.
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Server-side image maps need a server to interpret the
information they contain; the server system rather than the browser
processes the image map data.
All image maps have names associated with them. Cosmo Create names them
according the name of the image file for which you are creating the
map. For example, if you are adding a map to foobar.gif, the
image map name is foobar.map.
To choose what type of image map to create:
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Choose File > Preferences. . .
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Click the General preferences tab.
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Select the type of image map you want to create--client, server, or
both
You can change the type of image map you want to create at any time by
modifying the preference in the Preferences dialog.