More Rounded Corners

Like with Wikipedia, often times when you search for something and land at your desired article, you may click on a few other items in the article because they pique your interest or for clarification on certain details. And then in those articles, you may click on a few more items of interest. And so on.

It’s more or less the same thing with web development. You start looking for one thing and stumble across something else that looks equally as interesting.

In my last post, I brought up the topic of border-radius in IE-based browsers. Not soon after, I stumbled across a library called DD_Roundies.

While it will round the corners of frameset borders and buttons and the like, it does not, however, appear to play well with DOM manipulation (most notably, rounded corners for jQuery UI elements). It is a little twitchy when resizing elements, especially when the size of the browser window changes.  But, it does show promise.

In other news, there’s not much excitement on the front-end that’s worthy of a screenshot yet.  It’s mainly been work on back-end code, progress with the install/upgrade feature, revisions to the license agreement, and planning for major areas in the code base, such features that tie into geolocation / geotargeting.

Update (5/18/10):

I did some testing with DD_Roundies for the 301tool 1.1.2 update, and for the elements I would have liked to use it on, there were some unpredictable results, depending on the version of IE.  So, the bottom line is like with other border-radius “solutions” for IE, only use it on simple elements that don’t have a lot of things going on in terms of CSS.

Extra padding/margins get applied depending on what’s happening with the element (such as positioning, no borders, and/or padding/margins at 0px) and which version of IE you’re working with.  Also, form field and fieldset support is far from ideal.