Image Maps? or another method?

[tonynoriega]

i have a project where there is a circular image.

it has a center circle, surrounded by several layers...

you can image the corporate content that each piece of this pie represents...

i am considering using a jquery with image map hotspots...

is that the best method to do this?

i do not want to use flash.

thanks

[MWpro]

Flash would be easiest and most efficient. Other than flash or imagemaps I don't know how else you would accomplish this.

[swa66]

CSS: if it where rectangles I do have a way to position elements with CSS and get it that way, but a piece of pie, that's a bit too hard.

SVG: would do it instantly, but Microsoft fully neglects that standard in favor of their proprietary VML, making SVG quite unpopular, even if there are libraries to teach IE how to do it (AFAIK google maps uses SVG and VML for IE).

[tonynoriega]

is CSS3 going to support polygon shapes ?

[swa66]

I don't follow all of the discussions on the future CSS3 (I've by far not enough time to do so), but it would be somewhat illogical for CSS to go far into polygons. SVG is the more logical answer for most uses I guess.