07 April 2006
Nifty Corners in CSS
Check out these awesome samples of round corners in web pages without using images - all with a little CSS, some Javascript and vanilla HTML: Nifty Corners Cube
While I'm thinking about it, here are some arguments for CSS-type layouts (with no tables or any of that other cruft):
While I'm thinking about it, here are some arguments for CSS-type layouts (with no tables or any of that other cruft):
- They look great!
- They are backwards compatible with old browsers (which will just display a plain vanilla HTML type layout)
- They are compatible with screen readers
- They are compatible with mobile devices, WAP phones (remember them?), PDAs etc
- Less cruft means smaller page loads (since there are usually far fewer tags, especially if there is only one CSS file for the whole site which will be cached by the user's browser)
- Accessibility - users can switch off the styling to see just the content
- Ease of maintenance of the content
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