1 Wonderful!

This is a great extension on the Sliding Doors. After Douglas Bowman’s article I had crafted a resizable box with rounded corners ( http://www.andreas-kalt.de/roundedbox/ ). My approach works well for single boxes but not unfortunately for entire page layouts.

So this article takes the final step in making the whole thing truely versatile.

Andreas

posted at 06:41 am on December 5, 2003 by Andreas

2 Nice idea - I like it a lot....

This is really good. Something which will been seen more and more – certainly the last hurdle in CSS design approaches!

I don’t know if this si a limitation of IE6 but http://www.alistapart.com/d/customcorners/step6.html

tends to break at higher screen resolutions.

posted at 06:46 am on December 5, 2003 by Mateus

3 It's not an Ie problem

It’s a limitation of the design – you can only stretch the design as far as the graphic you made for it… in this case it isn’t big enough for such high resolutions and fails in all browsers.

posted at 06:52 am on December 5, 2003 by Michael Ward

4 Editor's note

It’s comforting to see, after last issues’s debacle, an Editor’s Note respecting what I’ll call, for lack of a better term, ‘prior art’ related to Madsen’s article. Anybody who’s still bitter (for some reason) about the JIR article should take note of this and be at ease.

Thanks for another great issue!

posted at 06:56 am on December 5, 2003 by Brian

5 re: It's not an IE problem

As Michael Ward points out, it’s not a limitation of the technique but simply of the image files used in the article.

posted at 06:57 am on December 5, 2003 by apartness

6 Extend

CSS needs a ‘extend’ mechanism for background images. A ‘fit’ mechanism would also be useful. And IE needs to support RGBA 8-bit and 32-bit PNGs.

posted at 07:00 am on December 5, 2003 by Chris RG

7 Browser checks and kudos

For those who are looking for a quick review, this technique…

Works in Win2K IE6.0, IE5.5, IE5.0, FireBird 0.7, NN 7.01;

Displays all styles except for background images in Win2K NN 4.79; and

Degrades gracefully in Win2K NN 3.0, IE 4.01, and IE 3.01 (why yes, I do have a lot of obselete browsers installed)

This is a fantastic technique, and I plan on using it on the redesign I’m working on for [url=“http://www.sdhs.sandi.net/about/”]this high school[/url]‘s website (for the sidebar).

posted at 07:05 am on December 5, 2003 by Ruth

8 Ie6 troubles

This doesn’t work correctly on IE6. I’m not talking about stretching the window too much, just the opposite.

While slowly resizing the window, table cells jump around the screen from left to right and back! Nice ideas, but unusable commercially.

posted at 07:12 am on December 5, 2003 by oVan

9 Re: Ie6

Table cells you say…
That explains a lot.
Slow resizing – the sure way tu commercial success!

posted at 07:34 am on December 5, 2003 by noOne

10 re: Ie6

noOne said:

>>Table cells you say…
>>That explains a lot.

Did you view source? There are no table cells.

posted at 07:40 am on December 5, 2003 by sanchez