Thread:Fandyllic/@comment-27075564-20170724155029/@comment-1077307-20170727024329

For reference this is what I'm calling image-map, and these are the two for wow that you saw when you copied them:

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb1/wowwiki/images/f/f3/Map-sprites.png http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb1/wowwiki/images/e/e1/Poiicons.png

Plus a css per image-map, plus css per icon. In wow that is the only way it works.

I decided work up template to do at least one of your images as a single and then show you and talk about it, which is what I was doing when Fandy asked. I decided that to meet what I would assume Raylan would want in practice for other sites, I would need to add single image, so all of that worked for a reason to start.

You can pick any way you want to do it that you can think of. The goal is to build something that you or I can understand after a minute of staring at it and have an idea what to do, or show others. And that you would be able to start with one and evolve to use whatever method you want, like one day you decide to make an image-map.

The wow way was an attempt to lower requests to the server, but its complex and 99% of the real world cases for map, it was a performance wash or a loss. On a different platform other than this Wikia one the answer might change. For WoW there was a time where that .001% on a page that had someone put 1000 poi with the load wow had then would cause the world to end, but that wouldn't happen now, and if for no other reason that Wikia and browser are much smarter now.