[proksoup]

Border radius with prefixes instead of with images felt elegant and simple and not shiny at the time (relative to what we were replacing).

[jwdunne]

Yeah. 4 - 5 lines of CSS far out strips 4 corner images and several extra divs, the typical implementation.

[aplummer]

Agreed, I would also say it's often not just the devs who build the requirements, hard to say something is impossible / not a good idea to implement when it's everywhere.

[tehwebguy]

And all those hours spent on A List Apart's "sliding door" tutorial for rounded corners