[Mediawiki-l] Imagemap problems

[Michael Daly]

I upgraded from MW 1.6.3 to 1.9.2 and image maps no longer work.  I was 
using the version from Shannon McNaught (SM) (one of the examples on the 
chekmate.org imagemap page is from my wiki - Shannon helped sort out 
some problems with imagemap on my wiki).  However, it no longer functions.

I looked at the Meta page on imagemaps and saw a link to a 1.9 
compatible version of imagemap by Tim Starling (TS).  This one "works", 
however is not compatible with the old imagemap extension.

It is entirely possible these problems are something I am doing wrong, 
however:

1 - SM version uses map files; TS version embeds map info inline.  The 
former is easier to maintain if the map is used in many locations - e.g. 
multilingual wiki.  Is there a syntax for TS that allows map files to be 
used?

2 - SM version is case insensitive.  TS version insists that keywords 
(poly, rect etc) are lower case.

3 - SM version's map files are virtually identical to HTML map syntax 
making HTML map tools easy to use to generate map files.  TS version 
doesn't seem to like comma-delimited vertices etc.

Before I spend a lot of time converting all the maps on my wiki to use 
the TS extension, is there any possibility of finding a way to make the 
two versions compatible?  I prefer the low-maintenance aspects of SM's 
version but need to fix imagemap real soon.

Mike