<object> element with attribute usemap do not provide client-side image map functionality

• Component: DOM
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Gérard Talbot]

This bug spun from bug 15032.

Opera 9.26, Opera 9.50, Firefox 3 RC1 rv:1.9 build 2008051206, Seamonkey 2.0a1 all pass all 4 example-tests in the provided URL's webpage from Chris Haig.

Explorer 8 beta 1 passes example-test 1.2.

Safari 3.1.1 build 525.17.0 fails all 4 example-tests.

Note that example-test 2.2 at
http://haignet.co.uk/object-image-map.htm
fails just because of bug 5566

Other related/worth-mentioning issues:

HTML 4 and HTML 5 both have usemap as an attribute for <object>s:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-object

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#usemap1

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#adef-usemap

Another testcase on <object> and image map:
http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/MSIE8Bugs/ObjectImageMapSupport.html

Note: I chose Component: HTML DOM but it could be Component: Images instead.

+CC Robert Burns

[Gérard Talbot]

References update:
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HTML 4 and HTML 5 both have usemap as an attribute for the HTML object element:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/embedded-content-0.html#the-object-element

"
The usemap attribute, if present while the object element represents an image, can indicate that the object has an associated image map. The attribute must be ignored if the object element doesn't represent an image.
"

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html#attr-hyperlink-usemap

Connect IE beta feedback bug report (id 333636):
Image map reference fails if called using the <object> element
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=333636

Internet Explorer 8 passes this test:
http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/MSIE8Bugs/ObjectImageMapSupport.html

regards, Gérard

[Gérard Talbot]

Example-tests 1.2 and 2.2 coming from
http://haignet.co.uk/object-image-map.htm
now PASS in latest stable release Safari 4.0 build 530.17

regards, Gérard

[Darin Adler]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 15032 ***