This is one of the main problems of web design and development now, even if it sounds strange. The thing is that with round corners the elements become more nice and groovy and most of the web designers make such design templates. The problem than comes over the web developer who’s supposed to convert this into HTML and CSS. Of course it would be nice if all browsers support rounded corners in CSS, but they don’t and guess what IE fully doesn’t support it.

-moz and -webkit

Most of you have heart about this patches in CSS when you can use this prefixes for Mozilla based and Safari’s Webkit based browsers. Than you can use border radius with no pain, and you get the same effect as with using images.

-moz-border-radius : 4px;
-webkit-border-radius : 4px;

Of course on IE this doesn’t work and the element remains with square corners. But what the question is, should we make both versions for non IE browsers without images and a version for the “great” MSIE and all of its versions?

My answer is: no!

Although many sites do that, see vimeo for instance, there’s no need to support that. As the rumor and the MSIE blog says in IE9 which is … coming soon there will be – border-radius property.

That’s awesome!

Finally Microsoft has done something good! So stop using background images! This is hard to maintain, difficult to make and it’s bad for the browser loading time, because of the extra images/sprites.