March 13, 200719 yr I hear that CSS3 will support rounded corners, is this true? If it is, it will be a welcome feature that's for sure, think of the time saved exporting rounded images! Are there any other features that we can look forward to that you know, i'm getting quite excited by it all. Trouble is we have to wait for ALL browsers to support it!... I don't personally use it, but if IE took the same time to get IE6 to IE7 - I won't be holding my breath. I am an avid Firefox user, but that's fine for me, but the general public will be using IE for sure, so no point using CSS3 until it's supported globally!
March 13, 200719 yr have a look here http://www.css3.info/preview/ they hightlight some of the new features Olivier
March 13, 200719 yr Author Thank you Olivier that's very interesting! Speech & Box Sizing look very cool. Thanks for that.
March 13, 200719 yr I totally agree, it's the browsers that are always playing catch up, W3C should supply a strict source code that every browser must conform to, but this is just a perfect world quite far from reality, but it would be nice, think of all the x-browsers compatibility issues that would solve! If there was one source for the way a webpage is displayed - each browser can still have it's own individuality and features!
March 17, 200719 yr have a look here http://www.css3.info/preview/ they hightlight some of the new features Olivier Thanks! i'm interested in multiple backgrounds.
March 17, 200719 yr I wish rounded corners were supported by all browsers NOW! I'm building a site at the moment and the designer has got rounded corners on everything and not only that he's mixed in gradients too, so that makes my job even harder. It's good to get a challenge though and I'm determined to find an easy solution! If I do I'll be posting my code up here in case anyone else gets stuck with the same problem.
March 18, 200719 yr I can't wait. I really want to start using those codes such as the text shadow effect using css, html is easy but doesn't look as well as the css does, and round corners is a must. WOW!
March 18, 200719 yr I was talking to Ben about this a little while ago and we agreed that it would be great everybody just just come together and created a browser engine that was standards complient, completely upto date and totally free to implement into all browsers.
March 18, 200719 yr Yeah but you'd still get idiots out there using MSIE on a mac or even netscape 4 - some people just hate change and don't want to upgrade.
March 18, 200719 yr Yeah but you'd still get idiots out there using MSIE on a mac or even netscape 4 - some people just hate change and don't want to upgrade. The client who loved Netscape 4... a Web Designers Nightmare!! I'm always slighty uneasy about using 'new' CSS techniques because you just know it'll always break in whatever browser the client is using..! ..or if not that, the resolution is too low and they are still using 640 x 480....... 80
March 18, 200719 yr Well CSS will always break on a certain browser, however can we just warn the visitors to use certain type. What I'm asking is that is there a script that will only allow you to enter a website if an only if you are using say Firefox, IE, etc.
March 18, 200719 yr What I'm asking is that is there a script that will only allow you to enter a website if an only if you are using say Firefox, IE, etc. Very very very bad accessibility practice... web standard have been introduce for that sort of reason, make content accessible for EVERYONE!!! I think site should be build to look at their best in modern browser and simply degrade nicely in less compatible browser. With the technology available these days, It is (nearly) always possible to ensure cross browser display and functionality... It's all about prioritising and getting the difference between what does the site needs to function, and what is embellishment... You cannot, banned users to visit your site altogether because they don't have a technology required to view it, however limiting the fancy stuff is no "crime"... What do you all think? Oli
March 18, 200719 yr I agree - you should never restrict your audience by only designing for one browser. All sites should work in all browsers. So what if they look slightly different becuase text is rendered at different sizes or that there is a small 3px gap here or there because of IE - so long as the information is available and accessible that's what counts. The site I recently did - the Past Present one - was designed to be displayed in Firefox as it was an offline project and we had total control over how it was going to displayed. It has now gone online and I know for definite that it looks awful in IE6 as that browser doesn't support PNG transparency, but it still works.
March 18, 200719 yr Banning is a no no, but restricting the layout isn't so much. Malarkey does this very well - visit the site in FF then in IE, and see the difference.
March 19, 200719 yr there's not much difference - is it really worth it having a different style sheet for IE just for those little changes in layout???
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