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When oh when is css3 finally going to be released???
It's not only the question I ask myself now, it's the question I ask myself for the past 6 years... that is so annoying!

The feature I miss most in css2 is the ability to apply round-corners to elements. But even the css3-definition "border-radius" is not yet available, there are some ways to do it. Here's my favourite way:

For some browsers, the developers included some "pre-versions" of border-radius:

Gekko-based browsers (Firefox, Netscape 6+)

or

Webkit-based browsers (Chrome, Safari, soon Blackberry)

or

Presto 2.3+ based browsers (Opera 10.5+)

or

KHTML-based browsers (Konqueror, old Safaris)

or

And finally, to be ready when css3 is implemented:

CSS3

or

So far, so good. BUT....
There's one more browser-engine, that holds still far over 50% share of the market: Trident, the engine of the unbeloved Internet Explorer. This engine still has no special css-definition for round corners and its developers are not going to implement one until css3 is officially released. Suddenly they care about standards? pff ;) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250413%28VS.85%29.aspx

However, it's also a solution for IE...

JQuery Corners

http://www.malsup.com/jquery/corner/
This solution would be ok for most browsers, but the css-way is slimmer.