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by pragmagic 5425 days ago
Such a shame. That will rule it out for a lot of developers.

For all your designers and front-end developers: there is a real need for something like this. Have a look through the weekendhacker archives and look at how many developers ask for design help. Templates on sites like themeforest are often only suitable for basic crud/admin apps or require so much customisation it's easier to start from scratch. At the other end of the scale you have a variety of frameworks and boilerplates which are great from a technical perspective but do little to help aesthetically challenged developers like me.

What we need is something in between. A library of pre-styled css 'components' that look good and support the most significant browsers. Similar in principle to Nicole Sullivan's OOCSS but with a greater range of visual styles. I'd pay significantly more than the cost of a themeforest template for a component library that managed all the cross browser issues for me and I'm sure others would too.

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This won't fix all of your problems, but I've found it pretty useful. It seems to degrade gracefully too.

http://css3button.net/

Actually from IE it just puts a big IE logo with a red X through it up on the screen. Arrogant and useless.
I suppose many incompatibilities could be fixed simply with CSS3 PIE [1]. I've been using in a few projects now, and the results are very positive. It rarely happened that the end results was bad.

[1]http://css3pie.com/