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From: Thomas McCarthy
Date: Sat, Apr 23 2005 12:03PM
Subject: Can I nest mouse over images with hot spots?
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Hello,
I would like to stay on one page but be able to drill down on a
series of images to display links from one image to the other with hot
spots on each. The purpose is to let browsers see how a Palm Pilot
program I have been developing is constructed, linked page by page
through the tapping of hot items on each page
http://astro.sps.edu/GuideStar/Wizard.asp. I don't want a click of the
mouse to send the browser to an entirely new page. I want it to behave
like a mouseover image swap. Is this possible? Or, would layers be an
alternative approach? Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Tom McCarthy

St. Paul's School
Hawley Observatory
325 Pleasant Street
Concord, NH 03301
(W) 603-229-4884
(H) 603-230-9624

http://astro.sps.edu

From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Mon, Apr 25 2005 8:32AM
Subject: RE: Can I nest mouse over images with hot spots?
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> I would like to stay on one page but be able to drill
>> down on a series of images to display links from one image to
>> the other with hot spots on each. The purpose is to let
>> browsers see how a Palm Pilot program I have been developing
>> is constructed


Have you considered using Flash and/or something like RomoDemo? It makes
doing this type of thing inredibly easy.

Otherwise, if you want to stick with DHTML, layers is likely what you'd want
to use.

(But neither would be terribly accessible...if that is the goal...)

-Darrel