I suddenly had a thought today. Will imagemaps work with a responsive site?

For example, a 4:3 image scales down as the width decreases. It seems to me that it would change the pixel positions of the links in the map. Has anyone dealt with this?

Yeah logic would dictate that and that the more it moves etc then the links would stay where they are, so they aren't responsive in themselves, but used wisely I still love em.

No, Image maps normally use absolute positioning of the links on an image. When scaled the absolute position would stay the same however the image would decrease in size.

It can be done, but would be a difficult task.

Are you a Javascript coder? I think it could be done with scripting with if else statements but I haven't tried it on Image Maps but it might work.

It can be done, but it would take a lot to do.

Yes it can be done.. It's easier to swap the the whole image map to a new one at the new screen size.

If it's on the same lines as your thinking, I did this just as a test. So I designed a site for mobile about 380px across and did the image map for that and a one for larger sites. Interesting it was, I think it's very doable, well...I did do it to a degree but it works good for menus and stuff as long as you don't want drop downs, now that does pose a problem. I've always classed myself more of web programmer rather than designer, but I've never done much coding apart from CSS over the last 3 yrs so it's a bit of a case of use it or lose it, but there's a few ways that I think these type of things can be done, although I've had so much experience of failure that I know theory is just a theory.