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It is standard for web elements. Very easy to set border radius

• EGreg 2y ago
  Bill Atkinson wasn’t aware of that feature. Also, Susan Kare didn’t know about vector graphics. That’s why all her icons ended up pixelated! But it was… quite iconic at the time.
  • Stratoscope 2y ago
    Whatever Susan Kare knew about vector graphics, that's not why the icons were pixelated. It was because she had only two colors to work with, black and white, and only two icon sizes, 16x16 and 32x32. Steve Jobs and Bill Atkinson only got 32x32 B&W icons for their own portraits: https://www.folklore.org/Steve,_Icon.html https://www.folklore.org/Steve,_Icon.html > Icons were only 32 by 32 black or white pixels, 1024 dots in total Susan posted more examples here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/81132387/Macintosh-icons https://www.behance.net/gallery/81132387/Macintosh-icons
    • michaeljsmith 2y ago
      (I think that was the joke)
      • Stratoscope 2y ago
        Consider me duly and properly whooshed! It was only when I later re-read the comment I replied to, with the part about Bill Atkinson not knowing about the border-radius feature in CSS, that I realized what was going on. At least I hope my note about the pixelated icons may have been of interest to a few. Thanks for keeping me on my toes!
• ftio 2y ago
  That hasn’t always been true! I remember with great displeasure the bad old days of creating a 3x3 table for every container and jamming a rounded corner gif into each of the four corners to create this effect.
  • lelandfe 2y ago
    See also the old sliding doors article breathlessly making rounded tabs: https://alistapart.com/article/slidingdoors/ https://alistapart.com/article/slidingdoors/
    • aalvarado 2y ago
      A list apart was my go to resource for a long time. Css zen garden was great
  • gary_0 2y ago
    I dunno, I look back on the <table>-based layout days with fondness, probably because I was young and the Web was nothing but rolling green fields and endless potential. I didn't see the limitations, only the opportunities for inventiveness. I'll never feel the same satisfaction as I did when those first few website designs came together.
    • reddalo 2y ago
      I feel like responsive websites killed that magic, because now it's way too complicated to make interesting designs.
  • nayuki 2y ago
    Indeed, CSS border-radius was introduced around year 2010. I was both browsing the web and writing pages before that time. https://caniuse.com/?search=border-radius https://caniuse.com/?search=border-radius , https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/border-radius https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/border-radi...
  • aalvarado 2y ago
    In games you had to do this 9 piece slice, one slice for each of the 4 corners, all 4 straight sides that can be repeated as a pattern and the middle background piece
    • filleduchaos 2y ago
• kccqzy 2y ago
  Do you not remember a time before border-radius? Or -webkit-border-radius? I remember including a premade rounded rectangle button in Flash just to get that visual effect.
  • karaterobot 2y ago
    To be fair, the original comment said other platforms should add this, and border-radius has been widely supported for at least 15 years. You'd have to look hard for a browser that needs it to be added.
• somat 2y ago
  ahh yes good ol border-radius, more popularly known as web 2.0