Wow, I never thought of doing it this way. Very interesting. Recently, I saw this: http://www.netzgesta.de/corner/
Using "Canvas" it works in: Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, Safari and IE6+ It might be worthwhile to create a jQuery version of this. It feels like the right approach. Glen On Jan 3, 2008 10:57 AM, weepy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > I've been working on a (yet another) curved corners plugin. This one > is slightly different though, because it uses a bullet (actually an > inverse bullet) to achieve the coners. > > Using a bullet has several features > > * Super dooper fast. I tried adding 3600 corners and it did it in less > than 2000ms on firefox. > * Very little extra html is added. > * No changes to the layout > * antialiased for free > * can support radius and borders up to 30px > * no change in speed for larger borders > > You can see it in action here > > http://www.parkerfox.co.uk/tmp/bullet_proof/ > > Note it's only perfect(ish) for Firefox/Ubuntu and Firefox/XP and IE6/ > XP. IE7 and Vista are not too bad but I haven't calibrated them. > > However, and the however is farily large, I've found that there are > differences in the way in which each broswer/OS combo renders the > fonts. In fact each radius requires pain-staking pixel perfect > calibration. > I am also concerned that there maybe too many possibilities and/or > there may be some unknown cases where it's not appropriate. > > It also results in a fairly large geometry file. The way round this > might be to cut it down production since you are unlikely to need all > radii from 1 to 30). > > I'd appreciate people's feedback and maybe someone has a cunning idea > to deal with the problems. Also I don't have access to many OS/Browser > combos, so please try it out and if you could email me a screeny that > would be fantastic. > > weepy > > > > > > > > > > > > >
