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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Tags: css, CSS3, design