RE: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread michael.brockington
-candy, and I really don't mind it looking better in FireFox than it does on IE. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Jeffery Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:59 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
With the sliding doors style if your boxes have standard content such as a header followed by a paragraph then you can avoid adding any additional markup too. James Jeffery wrote: What methods do you find best when creating rounded corners and which methods are the most supported? I have

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
That reminds me you can see what I was playing around with a couple of years ago on my cruddy broken web site. http://jixor.com/Stuff/Web/Panes James Jeffery wrote: What methods do you find best when creating rounded corners and which methods are the most supported? I have been using span

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread James Ellis
Hi Paul Too true, I'll figure out some sort of caching - probably a combo of server and client - at the moment it is just me hitting the script during testing. Thanks James On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:07:45 am Paul Bennett wrote: Now instead of opening up inkscape it's just a call to a PHP

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Bruce
Personally, and perhaps I am too motivated towards simplicity, I use three images. One across the top, one in middle, one for bottom. I find JavaScript annoying as I watch the corners filling in after page loads. Four to six images using css are better, but still problematical for

RE: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread James Leslie
For fixed width boxes I use 3 images - 1 for the top, 1 for the middle and 1 for the bottom For totally fluid boxes I try to use tags inside the container (headings and paragraph tags can be useful here depending on content) and then add divs as appropriate James James Jeffery wrote: What

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
I can offer this simple method: http://mikecherim.com/experiments/css_smart_corners.php I prefer spans over divs because divs do have semantic value as divisions whereas span are like puffs of air in that they serve as nothing more than a hook for styles, etc. I'd rather offer a span to accept

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Dave Woods
Hi Mike, I was considering using span's instead of div's for my example but was a little torn between the two as I'd usually use span's for their inline purpose in a block of text or for styling something within an inline element (when obviously a div would be invalid). I suppose in either case

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
Mike check out the example I posted earlier and you can see how it can be done without all the extra markup. Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: I can offer this simple method: http://mikecherim.com/experiments/css_smart_corners.php I prefer spans over divs because divs do have semantic value as

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
No worries, I use threaded view in my mail client so its easy for me to backtrack. http://jixor.com/Stuff/Web/Panes Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: Jixor - Stephen I wrote: Mike check out the example I posted earlier and you can see how it can be done without all the extra markup. I

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Jixor - Stephen I wrote: Mike check out the example I posted earlier and you can see how it can be done without all the extra markup. I need a link please. Mike *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Jixor - Stephen I wrote: http://jixor.com/Stuff/Web/Panes Thanks. That's clever and simple. Cheers. Mike *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

[WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-30 Thread James Jeffery
What methods do you find best when creating rounded corners and which methods are the most supported? I have been using span tags and absolute positioning. I have also recently started to use the sliding doors method because you can achive nice rounded boxes with some nice effects, even better if

RE: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-30 Thread Mohamed Jama
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Jeffery Sent: 30 October 2007 15:53 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Rounded Courners Your Take What methods do you find best when creating rounded corners and which methods are the most

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-30 Thread James Jeffery
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Direct: +44 (0)20 7313 2262 www.biggroup.co.uk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Jeffery Sent: 30 October 2007 15:53 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Rounded Courners Your Take

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-30 Thread James Jeffery
Sent: 30 October 2007 15:53 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Rounded Courners Your Take What methods do you find best when creating rounded corners and which methods are the most supported? I have been using span tags and absolute positioning. I have also recently started

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-30 Thread James Ellis
Hi James I got so sick of doing rounded corners and having to open a graphics program to change them (Hey, I'm a developer) when the design changed that I wrote PHP script using Imagick2.0 that draws the quadrants using the correct foreground colour, background color (or transparent), border

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-30 Thread akella
: 30 October 2007 15:53 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Rounded Courners Your Take What methods do you find best when creating rounded corners and which methods are the most supported? I have been using span tags and absolute positioning. I have also recently

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-30 Thread James Jeffery
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Jeffery Sent: 30 October 2007 15:53 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Rounded Courners Your Take What methods do you find best when creating rounded corners and which methods are the most supported

RE: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-30 Thread Paul Bennett
Now instead of opening up inkscape it's just a call to a PHP script like: background-image: url(corner.png.php?fgc=cccbs=1bgc=000bc=fffr=90); So for everytime the css file is called, your script has to create an image? Has this impacted on your sites / servers performance any? Have you

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-30 Thread Christian Snodgrass
I also prefer using the div tags. I think it's as semantically valid as span, which neither of them really are. The idea for a PHP round corners script is a very interesting one as well. I'd be interested in seeing that script. -- Christian Snodgrass Azure Ronin Web Design