Archive for April, 2010

Flash alternatives already

April 11th, 2010 by JorisO | No Comments | Filed in Front-end development

Flash (“Adobe Flash” formerly Macromedia Flash, and even longer ago as FutureSplash), has in recent years finally gotten some serious competition. Oddly this hasn’t really happened often yet in Flash’s fifteen years of existence.

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CSS3 rounded corners

April 3rd, 2010 by JorisO | 1 Comment | Filed in CSS3, Front-end development

CSS 3 finally delivers specifications for the rounding of corners. CSS 3 allows you to specify a radius for the corners of an element. This offers the promise of no longer having to use awkward rounded corner / border hacks based on images or CSS / JavaScript for such a simple graphic effect.

At the time of writing Internet Explorer’s latest version (8) still doesn’t support this feature in any way. Also CSS vendor prefixes are still necessary for Mozilla (FireFox) and WebKit (Safari/Chrome) based browsers. Surely the vendor-specific prefixes and syntactical quirks will also disappear once the application of this CSS3 feature becomes more commonplace.

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