I make pages with Word 2000 or Word XP (Office 2000 or Office XP). Why doesn Mapedit work?
The problem is that these pages are full of Microsoft VML, which is not HTML at all, but rather a vector graphics format invented by Microsoft. Since Firefox, Safari and Opera don’t understand VML (and good riddance— VML is junk), they use the fallback HTML provided by Word. And that works, because that’s where Mapedit puts the imagemap. But Mapedit doesn’t speak VML, only HTML, so it can’t make sense of the VML tags that Word is putting into your page; it just edits the HTML tags seen by non-IE browsers. Internet Explorer completely ignores the HTML for your images and uses the VML instead. Fortunately there is a solution. Use Microsoft’s Office HTML Filter to remove office-specific markup. For Word/Office XP and other newer versions, just choose “Save As Web Page (Filtered)” instead of just “Save As Web Page.” This filter removes the proprietary, essentially useless VML markup that prevents your page from working properly with Mapedit and other programs. For Word/Office 2000, there i
