Introduction to Image Maps and Flash Image Maps
maps, instead of HTML and CSS. Creating image maps using Flash is a lot easier, faster, and more powerful. That’s because Flash maps have a wide variety of interactive functions to enable different rollover effects, various pop-up box styles, and zooming. Flash image maps also loads a lot smoother and faster, with better browser compatibility because browsers of all types use the same Flash plug-in from Adobe. Whereas HTML image map might work differently in old and new browser, and the mapping script often won’t work across browsers of all operation system platforms.
Different from HTML image maps, flash image maps combine image and script into a single file, which makes it straightforward for web developers to embed into their existing web page without worry about affecting existing scripts. In addition, there are many flash image map software available online which
