GWT: Positioning DIV on top of image using getAbsoluteTop/Left - FF off by a few pixels? - gwt

I'm working on some Google Web Toolkit Code that places an AbsolutePanel on top of an image. The way I'm doing this is to:
wait until the image is loaded (i.e. width/height are >0)
get the absolute coordinates of the image in the viewport using image.getAbsoluteLeft() and image.getAbsoluteTop
Set the position of the AbsolutePanel (a direct child of the RootPanel) to the same coordinates using RootPanel.get().setWidgetPosition(myPanel, imageAbsLeft, imageAbsTop);
This works in Chrome and IE. Strangely, though, Firefox always positions the AbsolutePanel "a few" pixels (I'd say between 1 and approx 10? But it varies from page load to page load) above the image. I'm clueless as to what's causing this. Any hints much appreciated!
A live example of this is here: http://yuma-js.github.com. If you click the "Add Annotation" there's a draggable box, which movement is constrained by the AbsolutePanel. You'll notice that the constraining works perfect for Chrome, but is off for FireFox.

Morning,
well, I did some research how I could overlay an image with a another object too, and found this article: How to overlay one div over another div.
Based on that I made a similar example using SVG and drawing example, where I draw a rectangle around a space station. What I can tell you is, that you don't want to mix pixel and percentage positioning, and if you can, you should use percentage positioning!
Hope this helps somehow.
Here is my example:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>SVG Example</title>
<style>
html, body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
#container {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
position: relative;
}
#navi,
#infoi {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
#infoi {
z-index: 10;
}
#navi img {
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div class="navi"><img src="http://www.bing.com/fd/hpk2/SpaceStation_ROW1605701719.jpg" width="100%" height="100%"/></div>
<div id="infoi"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
<rect x="65%" y="40%" width="20%" height="30%"
fill="none" stroke="red" stroke-width="2"/>
</svg>
</div>
</div>
<p>This example draws a fullscreen image and places a fullscreen svg element above it. The svg element then draws a rectangle based on percentage sizes,
which is around the space Station. If the browser window resizes, the size of the drawn rectanlge changes as well, to always be on top of the space
station.</p>
<p>Resources for this example where the following links:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2941189/how-to-overlay-one-div-over-another-div" >How to overlay one div over another div</a>
<li><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svg" >Wikipedia: Scalable Vector Graphics</a>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/shapes.html" >W3C Recommendation: 9 Basic Shapes</a>
</ul>
<p>Image from: Bing.com, © StockTrek/White/Photolibrary</p>
</html>

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first of all: GREAT STUFF!!
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Centering divs in HTML and CSS but cut-off on mobile screens

I have been having some real issues with CSS!
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I have put the container and layout divs in since last time, but still the same problem occurs. Is there any way that I can adjust the code so that the left hand side doesn't keep getting chopped off?
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Are you including a viewport meta tag? It should eliminate any scaling issues you may be having in mobile.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
To you CSS: <div>s are block elements, and their default behavior is to expand the width of their parent (100%). Those CSS declarations aren't necessary.
From your code, and layout, it doesn't look like you need #LayoutDiv1 or to use positioning.
This simpler code takes care of the left-side-cutoff (here's a fiddle):
.pageContainer {
margin:0 auto;
}
#LayoutDiv1 {
margin: auto;
text-align:center;
}
#Box {
width: 487px;
height: 181px;
top: 236px;
margin:236px auto 0;
}
And like a prev poster mentioned, you could add a #media query to load a smaller image for #Box on mobile (you can simply add a line or two [or 200] to your existing CSS file):
#media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {
#Box { background:url('imgs/mobile-hero.jpg'); }
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Footer won't center on the bottom of the page

My footer is perfectly positioned on every computer screen.
But, when I test it on an Iphone, the footer get stuck in the middle of the page and is not repeating itself in a horizontal way.
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How to use the CSS Sticky Footer on your website
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<head>
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image map not working on iOS devices, with large images that get rescaled by the device

I'm developing an internal web app on our company intranet using PHP. One section of the app displays a couple of high resolution images to the user. These images are in the region of 5000x3500 pixels. Each image has an image map (using rectangular areas), and all works fine in the desktop browsers I've tried.
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This topic was solved here on stackoverflow: jquery-image-map-alternative
The best idea is to use absolutely positioned anchors (also as suggested by steveax) instead of imagemap.
Update
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Why don't you use Responsive Image Maps instead. This way you can still use poly maps for oddly shaped items.
http://mattstow.com/experiment/responsive-image-maps/rwd-image-maps.html
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Nathan's comment is correct. You need to fix the viewport to prevent scaling. Basically, either specify a fixed pixel width, or set the scale to 1.0 and set user-scalable=no
See this document for reference:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/UsingtheViewport/UsingtheViewport.html
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I ran into this limitation recently on a project where we needed to be able to zoom and this is what I did to solve it:
Split the image up into 4 quadrants
Placed the 4 images into divs with width and height set to 50% and position: absolute;
Absolutely positioned <a> elements within the quadrant's parent element using
percentage values and a high z-index
Like this:
CSS
#map-frame { position: relative; }
.map {
display: block;
position: absolute;
width: 5%;
height: 3%;
z-index: 99;
}
.q {
position: absolute;
width: 50%;
height: 50%;
}
.q img {
display: block;
max-width: 100%;
}
.q1 {
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
.q2 {
top: 0;
right: 0;
}
.q3 {
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
}
.q4 {
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
}
HTML
<div id="map-frame">
<a class="map" href="foo.html" style="top: 20%; left: 20%;">
<a class="map" href="foo.html" style="top: 40%; left: 20%;">
<a class="map" href="foo.html" style="top: 20%; left: 40%;">
<a class="map" href="foo.html" style="top: 40%; left: 40%;">
<div id="q1" class="q">
<img alt="" src="q1.jpg" />
</div>
<div id="q2" class="q">
<img alt="" src="q2.jpg" />
</div>
<div id="q3" class="q">
<img alt="" src="q3.jpg" />
</div>
<div id="q4" class="q">
<img alt="" src="q4.jpg" />
</div>
</div>
Put all the content INSIDE A TABLE. Set to 100% width. The iphone doesnt seem to scale tables... I was struggling with this problem as i had my images just lose, or inside a div.
none of the rect coords links were working. But when i put the whole lot inside a table... Well, just try it and see :)
I dig out this post because I've just found a solution to get image map working on iOS.
Put your map within an anchor and listen click/tap events on it, to check if the target element matches with a map's area.
HTML
<a id="areas" href="#">
<img src="example.jpg" usemap="#mymap" width="1024" height="768">
<map name="mymap">
<area id="area1" shape="poly" coords="X1,Y1,X2,Y2...">
<area id="area2" shape="poly" coords="X1,Y1,X2,Y2...">
<area id="area3" shape="poly" coords="X1,Y1,X2,Y2...">
</map>
</a>
JAVASCRIPT
$("#areas").on("click tap", function (evt) {
evt.preventDefault();
if (evt.target.tagName.toLowerCase() == "area") {
console.log("Shape " + evt.target.id.replace("area", "") + " clicked!");
}
});
Tested on iPad4 with mobile safari 6.0
Do not use Default <img usemap="#map"> and <map name="map"> change it. Like <img usemap="#mapLink"> and <map name="mapLink">. It's working !!!
Simply using a # in the usemap attribute appears to solve the problem on iPhone.
For example <img usemap="#mapLink"> and <map name="mapLink">
My solution was easy. I just assigned a height and width in the DIV's css to match the size of the image and everything worked fine. Original image size was 825 x 1068, so
<div style= width: 825px; height: 1068px;">
...
</div>
Hope it helps.
I solved this with only 1 line of code, no JavaScript. Only CSS, you need to use zoom property to scale your image and everything will work fine, just like this
img {
zoom: 0.3;
}
<img src="largeimage.jpg" width="5000" height="3500" usemap="#examplemap">
<map name="examplemap">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0,100%,10%" href="blah1"/>
<area shape="rect" coords="0,10%,50%,70%" href="blah2"/>
<area shape="rect" coords="50%,10%,100%,70%" href="blah3"/>
</map>
please try using percentage values inside coordinates