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Rounded corners tend to get a lot of hype in the web design world. Some don’t consider a site design complete until all its pointed corners are erased from existence. Regardless of your stance on them, they do have a certain pleasantness to them; staring at them can induce calmness in a user. And heaven know, a calm user equals a happy IT support person.
But I digress. Today’s instructional anecdote came about after I got sick to death of looking at a poorly designed rounded corner implementation on an internal web application that I support at my company. First off, allow me to mention that our users are required to use Internet Explorer, something that is terribly common in Windows-based organizations. We have a lot of web applications from vendors who in turn require Internet Explorer, so we don’t give them another browser to use.
Are you getting repeated calls from a fax machine, with no apparent end in sight? Welcome to my personal day of hell yesterday! I had exactly this problem on Wednesday, so rather than simply let it be as one of my stranger days at work, I thought that I’d turn it into a lovely learning experience for all!
