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I have considered recently I should make some things with imagemaps again, like there is untapped potential there I'm not clear of but that when I start working with it years of experience and new technologies will clarify.

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Make a web framework that renders the UI entirely as mapped images. A PNG would probably be faster to load and render than most of today's multi-megabyte JS monstrosities.

Aaaaand it's 1996 again!

No in 1996 we did everything with frames, I once worked with a team that designed a website consisting of 200 frames.

How did it run? I can imagine it being super slow, but on the other hand in 2020 there are news sites that "need" hundreds of JS files to load.

> Make a web framework that renders the UI entirely as mapped images.

This is in fact what Microsoft Publisher (late 90s WYSIWYG web development tool) used to do if you dared to make any page elements overlap.

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