[gkilmain]

Rounded corners really were all the rage for a while and we needed support for it! I remember in the early days cobbling together elements with top-left, top-right, etc image slices. Want't really too long ago.. maybe 10 years?

[samwillis]

I remember in the late 90s building content boxes with 3x3 tables, outer cells containing image slices for the border, drop shadow and rounded corners. Macromedia Fireworks had brilliant tools for both creating these sort of graphics, but also slicing them up for use in tables. I still miss Fireworks, Adobe killed it though as they perceived that it competed with Photoshop when it really didn’t. It’s the spiritual precursor to all ui/ux design tools like Figma and Sketch.

[lelandfe]

Some classic webmaster nostalgia:

Sliding door technique: https://alistapart.com/article/slidingdoors/

Bulletproof buttons: https://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200705/creating_bulle...

[omneity]

Maybe try 20ish years? Those are the days of php-nuke and what you described was a common technique for building themes back then.

[czx4f4bd]

MDN says border-radius was added to Chrome in 2010 and Firefox in 2011, and Chrome added the prefixed version in 2008. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/border-radi...