Last night I finally got round to upgrading my Win XP VMWare image from IE8 beta to the production release. A bit slack on my behalf as the browser was released about 3 weeks ago. Still, I’d been testing websites in the beta release and all was cool.
Well, that’s what I thought. Last night I discovered that my company website, no longer worked. Looking into the problem this morning, I discovered that the culprit was a jQuery plugin that renders rounded/curvy corners.
I looked at a few other plugins, but none seemed to work. After a bit of Googling, I cam across an interesting blog entry from the guys at filmanentgroup, who are heavily involved in developing the jQuery UI API.
The blog entry highlighted an interesting piece of javascript development by Drew Diller that has nothing to do with jQuery. Drew has written an IE specific library called DD_roundies, that uses VML to produce the rounded corners.
The idea is that this code be used for browsers that don’t (yet) support CSS3 border radius. However, Drew has included an option to also render the CSS3 syntax for those browsers that support this feature.
I’ve now updated my site to use Drew’s code with CSS3 syntax support. This works in IE6, IE7, IE8, Safari, FireFox and Chrome. It doesn’t yet work in Opera, but this is only a matter of time (and perhaps a code update). If you want to support Opera, you can simply use conditional comments.
Tags: CSS, ie8, javascript, JQuery
IE8 is no longer RC? Where have I been?
I installed IE8 last week and have actually been relived to find it’s rendering engine is very good. Admittedly it’s lacking a few CSS3 features that would have made it superb but I can happily sleep at night knowing all the websites I’ve created in the past two years look great in IE8 because it now handles CSS 2 properly.
I cannot believe that IE8 still not supports rounded corners…
IE its getting somehow not that bad in their 8th version, but still score pretty awful in the acid 3 test: http://acid3.acidtests.org/, which means they are far from have a standard complain browser.
If you don’t know what is “ACID 3 TEST” read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3
Howie,
I had written DD_roundies off, because when I looked at the DD_roundies page all the VML rounded divs are about 300px right of where they belong. I figured it was broken.
You say DD_roundies is working for you in IE8 though, very strange. I visited your company homepage, and indeed, there they are. Maybe I’ll give it a try after all.
Thanks,
Vaughn
It’s really a shame. That’s one of reasons, because i don’t use the IE.
Folks, new century, new rules. Simply leave behind the crap you don’t need.
Just a note to say that this project is no longer supported, not to say it does not work, just that there will be no more updates made.
http://www.dillerdesign.com/experiment/DD_roundies/