• by Beltalowda on 2/13/2022, 12:02:42 PM

    It's just old; back in the day HTML had very little graphic capabilities, and loading multiple images was comparatively slow (think 56k connections). So you'd load a single image and then subdivide that in clickable areas with image maps (which is what this is called).

  • by ssss11 on 2/13/2022, 11:16:56 AM

    Isn’t it an image map? No one uses them any more I don’t think but they had their time.

  • by foldr on 2/13/2022, 1:02:03 PM

    As other commenters have said, this used to be a very common technique.

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...