I think several things in this article were more from the early 00's than the 90's. Before using tables for rounded corners, I remember playing with a multi-ch

I think several things in this article were more from the early 00's than the 90's. Before using tables for rounded corners, I remember playing with a multi-chat app called Trillian (which handled yahoo chat as well as ICQ and others). It could be skinned to your liking in much the same way you were dealing with rounded corners. The top and side cells were repeating images so resizing the window would work well.