Image Maps do not work in Outlook 2007

[Paul Schmidt]

Although the documentation I have seen says that image maps should work, I
have seen problems with them:

1) Server side Image Maps do not work at all
2) Client side image maps may not work in all configurations

Does anyone know how to get these to work and if there is anyone working on
these bugs?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Although the documentation I have seen says that image maps should
work, I have seen problems with them:

1) Server side Image Maps do not work at all
2) Client side image maps may not work in all configurations

Does anyone know how to get these to work and if there is anyone
working on these bugs?

HTML in Outlook 2007, because Word 2007 is used as the engine, does not
implement all of the HTML 4.1 standard. I don't know whether what you're
trying to do is among the supported features, but see this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx

 

[Paul Schmidt]

Brian,

Thank you for the post. I went back to try to find all cases where things
did not work. Here is a summary of what I found, it is probably not
complete, but shows how certain cases are handled.

The test case is to use an image map that has a client side image map with a
server side image map as a fallback. My understanding is that this, for
accessibility reasons, is the ideal situation. To test I created an image
map on a webpage, then selected the image map, copied it to the clipboard.
(See http://www.iplenus.com/imagemap.html)

Here is what I tested and the result:
* Outlook 2007 does not send the coordinates to a server side map.
* Copying and pasting into a signature and saving it and then sending an
email with that signature will preserve the client side mapping. But it
looks like it dropped the ISMAP.
* Copying and pasting into an email will lose not only the ISMAP (server
side mapping) but the client side mapping as well.