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Geek Culture / FF to hurt their own cause?

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Phaelax
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Posted: 14th Jan 2007 07:16
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Stupid FF fanboys. IE provided browser specific features and people bash MS for creating non-standards. Here, we see some people pushing to support FF in its effort to provide its own browser specific feature with rounded borders.

http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Promote_FireFox_With_Rounded_Borders_

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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 14th Jan 2007 08:48 Edited at: 15th Jan 2007 05:28
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Although I love Firefox I don't understand why "professional looking rounded borders" is such an amazing discovery for the person who made that page. The universe is filled with round things... it's the most basic shape in nature.
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dark coder
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Posted: 14th Jan 2007 09:26
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Looks pretty crap though, unless they anti-alias it, and this can be achieved using images and a bit of work so I don't see why people would want this feature in, not to mention it being browser specific as said above.

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Josh
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Posted: 14th Jan 2007 12:50 Edited at: 14th Jan 2007 12:51
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I don't understand the need for it either, but it doesn't mean you have to use that feature...

Anyway the next build of FF will be a hell of a lot more standards-friendly. This could even be a new W3C standard coming in... (Couldn't read the artical, website was down.)

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Fallout
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Posted: 14th Jan 2007 13:01
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That is crap. And that's not bashing for the sake of bashing. That is actually just crap. It's a waste of space, looks crap without anti-aliasing, looks very unprofessional and is just completely pointless.


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Roxas
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lol .. No thank's im sticking in opera still the Firefox rounded boxes arent going to change my mind

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 14th Jan 2007 13:54
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Dumbasses... Its not like its a hard effect to do manually!

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Cash Curtis II
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Posted: 14th Jan 2007 14:07 Edited at: 14th Jan 2007 14:08
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This will go right up there with flashing text...

It's not a bad idea, just poorly implemented. Nobody will use it if it looks like junk.


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TKF15H
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Posted: 14th Jan 2007 16:36
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"FF to hurt their own cause?"
ha... you make it sound like it's worse than it actually is.
When IE goes non-standard you get things jumbled-up on other things and stuff not rendering properly in other browsers.

Here we get ordinary square corners.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 14th Jan 2007 17:43
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That website looks like crap, their examples look like crap. They are crap. I could do something better in MS Paint.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 14th Jan 2007 19:08
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Quote: "Here, we see some people pushing to support FF in its effort to provide its own browser specific feature with rounded borders."


That makes no sense (not your post, the request itself) because FF already supports rounded-corners via non-standard mark-up anyway (moz-border anyone?). I fail to see what this is going to achieve.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 15th Jan 2007 15:19
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All I'm saying is creating browser specific features can push users away from standards. TK is right in this case, this one isn't a big issue. But, the more non-standard 'features' they support, the worse it could get.

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Josh
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Posted: 15th Jan 2007 17:57
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That's true, but I'm sure this won't cause a problem, as anybody who knows what they're doing with web dev has already had sufficient bad experience with IE to bother with using these FF specific standards.

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