Another nice aspect of border-radius over the emulation approach, is that it lets you avoid aliasing artifacts when changing the page size via full-page zoom. For example, if you look at the basic popup on the showcase, and change the page zoom size in your browser, you can see occasional single-pixel 'cracks', and the rounded corner ends up being pixelated.
On Feb 17, 11:37 am, Chi H <[email protected]> wrote: > I would support just using border-radius for rounded corners and > living with square corners in IE 6-8. (Same with using box-shadow for > shadows, e.g.: in DialogBox) > I think it still needs to look 'good' on IE6-8, but it doesn't need to > look exactly the same, and i think missing rounded corners is an > acceptable difference. > > If you are going to take that approach, I think you should also break > a bit of backwards compatibility with the new theme by changing the > DOM structure of some of the existing widgets. > Using border-radius and still having superfluous 3x3 tables all over > the place seems like a decision that will be regretted down the road. > > Internally, we have an internal implementation for buttons and tabs > that, via deferred binding, uses border-radius on HTML5 browsers, and > images for rounded corners on IE6-8. That is not the easiest thing to > implement (and we didn't try to make it generically theme-able), but > would be my 'ideal' solution for the widgets where that is possible. > That being said, there are much higher things on my wishlist than > that :) > > On Feb 17, 9:08 am, John LaBanca <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Chrome, Safari, and Firefox support rounded corners natively in CSS. How do > > you guys feel about using CSS rules to create rounded corners on modern > > browser that support it, but not IE? It would mean degraded styles in IE, > > but thats better than degraded styles across the board. > > > Thanks, > > John LaBanca > > [email protected] > > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Jeff Schwartz > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > It is an improvement over previous attempts but can I make a suggestion? > > > Why not use a top graphic artist? Developers are great at layout but... > > > well > > > you know where I'm going with this. > > > Notice josht in the cc list. Yes, GWT finally has a graphic designer on the > > team. Unfortunately, he's constrained by the fact that he cannot change > > the DOM structure of existing widgets, which limits what he can do. > > > > Jeff > > > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:12 PM, John LaBanca <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> The GWT team is happy to (pre)announce that we will introduce a new, > > >> more modern CSS style theme in GWT 2.3 called "Clean". The new theme > > >> makes > > >> existing widgets look cleaner (more business-like) than the "standard" > > >> theme, and replaces the thick light blue borders with thin gray borders. > > >> We > > >> worked under the constraint that we would not modify the DOM structure of > > >> the existing widgets because we didn't want to break existing apps, so > > >> this > > >> new theme is purely a CSS overhaul. > > > >> You can preview the new Clean style theme at the link below: > > >>http://gwt-showcase-clean.appspot.com/ > > > >> Please let us know what you like and dislike about the new theme, and if > > >> you are interested in switching your app to it. Once we release the > > >> theme, > > >> it becomes very difficult to change it without affecting existing apps, > > >> so > > >> early feedback is helpful. > > > >> Thanks, > > >> John LaBanca > > >> [email protected] > > > >> -- > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > >> "Google Web Toolkit" group. > > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > >> [email protected]. > > >> For more options, visit this group at > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > > > -- > > > *Jeff Schwartz* > > >http://jefftschwartz.appspot.com/ > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
