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Re:CSS Rounded corners: 7 lines of code, without any images by geuis on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @09:37PM (#201659)
why would any developer who didnt want to lose their job use this? There are lots of things you can do that you shouldn't. So what I can do with one background image and 2-3 divs and look good, you can do with a series of bold tags to look bad. Sorry to be critical, but this is not the quality of content I have come to expect from HN. Digg maybe.
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Re:CSS Rounded corners: 7 lines of code, without any images by ambition on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @12:05AM (#201761)
I've never hit a CSS rounded corners solution that met all my requirements:

* No image files (Extra HTTP requests/inflexible to colour changes)

* No extra markup (All the benefits of a clean DOM)

* Cross-browser without relying on parsing bugs (Supporting user choice is good)

* No pixel-based measurements (Visual designs should scale to different browser text sizes and screen resolutions)

Given that, any solution will involve some trade-offs. To me, some non-semantic HTML is a reasonable sacrifice since it is transparent to most users.

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Re:CSS Rounded corners: 7 lines of code, without any images by nreece on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @03:23AM (#201864)
Its code hacking, a part of what hackers do. If it was actually Digg material, it would have been on the Digg frontpage by now.
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Re:CSS Rounded corners: 7 lines of code, without any images by henryw on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @10:44PM (#201712)
because hackers like to do things with less work. creating images means work. the code does look long though. it should probably be abstracted into a server-side view helper function.
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Re:CSS Rounded corners: 7 lines of code, without any images by tdavis on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @11:21PM (#201741)
Less work in this case = horrible results. You're ruining the semantics of the DOM to use a crappy method for creating rounded corners. Want to create a fluid box with rounded corners and even less work? Use Javascript. You're not writing crappy HTML and it's even less work; just tag the <div /> with a class.

If the quality of the implementation weren't bad enough, this method isn't even new.

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