I've used image maps in the past with big ass images, with pretty much no problems. Today I got a message that one of our websites wasn't "live". Initially confused, I went to the site and clicked on the links and they were working.
Now on the phone with the person, I asked what they were using. They were using Safari, so I initially chalked it up to that. Then I used MSIE and guess what, the links didn't work!
Sure enough after looking at the html (It's a simple page) and at an imagemap syntax example I was missing a pound sign (#) in my usemap attribute. Firefox I guess "helped" me by making the site work, but it also gave me the false sense of that it was working for everyone.
Lesson I learned today: Give a quick test on even the most simple ass pages on a few different browsers. You never know what might turn up.