[thelist] Client-Side Imagemap Maker

Marcus Andersson marcus at bristav.se
Wed Aug 25 06:26:57 CDT 2004


Any browser requirements? Is it cross-browser or do you control the clients environment? I've previously built 
one using VML, IE and javascript. Perhaps you could do something similar with SVG plugin if you need it in 
other browsers.

/Marcus

Joshua Olson wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I'm looking for a tool to help a client generate image maps.  Fundamentally,
> the tool only needs to allow them to draw/edit polygons over an image and
> then submit the set of coordinates back to the server in some form or
> fashion so that I can tie the coordinates set to a data item on the
> back-end.  I've considered doing everything server-side (iow creating some
> complicated back-and-forth process with the user to add points to a diagram
> and dynamically render staged images on the server), using some sort of Java
> applet, or perhaps using flash.  I haven't found any good tools for either
> of the latter.
> 
> Any ideas/things that I should consider?
> 
> Thanks a million!
> 
> <><><><><><><><><><>
> Joshua Olson
> Web Application Engineer
> WAE Tech Inc.
> http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/
> 706.210.0168
> 
> 



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