This is by far too specific and too limited a wish. Better CSS support for the client would be all we need. Let's not turn the wheel 10 years back and start to mix up content and presentation again.

Rounded courners are obsolete, it was just a fashion trend. If you see anywhere rounded corners you can say "omg this site is so 1980!" :)

What' IN now are now sharp corners, and also slant corners, but both in 3D style. The addinional kick comes from the virtually non existant microfades of colors, like seen in Notes 8 Standard. It just gives the feel that it looks better, but the eye can't tell why. And then AmigaOS 4.0 is just around the corner and will show once again to the whole IT industry how things should be done, for the next 20 years again.

While I actually like the idea (and promoted it), I did want to point out that there are some slick tricks available for making rounded corners in Notes. See my post called "Rounded table corners in Notes client" { Link } .

for the Notes client: okej, for the Web client: nah!

every person has his preferences on how the rounded corner should look like (at least of the web).

I agree not to mix up presentation with the content.

I second Harkpabst. Better less effort to create proprietary solution, where a standard does allready exist. Especially as there would be at least clients to support (2 browsers, safari for Mac aficionados, Eclipse RCP and Notes classic).

This is so strange... I was planning to make a blog about it this evening, because I felt I could make this work in the client. I did some research yesterday, found Ben's post, and started thinking about alternatives. To be continued.

I found the rounded corners in R6 when I pulled apart the Calendar Entry form and started using them way back then. It's also interesting to note that "border-image" is part of the CSS3 spec: { Link } . Yeah, that's from 2002. IBM was way ahead of the curve.

Charles do you mean instead of "IBM was way ahead of the curve" that they were "way ahead of the rounded corner"?

Here's my post about the rounded corners: { Link }

Mr. Interface, Chris Blatnick, blogged about this:

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@Greg, I saw that post, it only tells how to create rounded corners. And for the web, there are tons of techniques for this. In the Notes Client, it's not possible without some tricks.

11 - You just set the border of a table to an Image with rounded corners, such as CalEntry - Details Border from your mail file. There is no trickery involved.

@Charles - You are correct that there are no tricks for making simple rounded corners, although Martin has done a nice job in his post of showing some variations. On the other hand, there are some tricks worth remembering when creating such borders for making them even more handy, such as this { Link } Look at the bottom of the table and see how you can incorporate writing into the table border itself.