Also, in happy times when multiple background images are commonly supported getting rid of one <script...> is easier than fishing out all extra divs, spans, etc.
Looks to me like the CSS3 working draft for border-radius and multiple background-images won't solve much beyond the ordinary "round box" illusions. "Shaped borders" will not be possible to create without extra elements - generated or hard-coded.
The hard-coded approach is not all that easy to maintain across larger sites - and it does look ugly, and only transparent background-images will go with any page-background and they can't be applied over/outside the edges of the box - even in CSS3 AFAICS. Is there a standard-compliant and 'semantically clean' way to generate the extra elements/style-hooks needed for something like what's in this test-page... <http://www.gunlaug.no/homesite/main_6_xv.html> ...that'll work in most browsers? Needless to say that I have looked around for alternatives with at least the same design-flexibility, or ways to improve what I have, since I finished that test-page a couple of years ago, but I have yet to find one that works. Lots of "conditionals" but no "can go anywhere" solutions around, AFAIK. More difficult still: how to integrate it all with a real background-image on the box. Any real solutions around? regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
