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Its a well known technique (using border slants), though I enjoyed to implement it by myself as a simple drawing class that works in major browsers. What I want to know, is where it can be used (or maybe it is useless?), and what should I add or change.


Wait, you can make slanted borders?

This is cool, I didn't know. I googled around and found some more:

http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/slantastic/demo.html

http://infimum.dk/HTML/slantinfo.html (check also links from there)

http://infimum.dk/HTML/rasterTriangleDOM.html


Also please check this link: http://www.uselesspickles.com/triangles/demo.html (I found it after I implemented my algorithm) I use the same method to draw triangles, but a bit more simplified (requires 1 div less per triangle)


Would it be emulate the canvas tag seemlessly for browsers that don't support it such as IE?


IE and or any old browsers can support canvas tag when you use ExplorerCanvas http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/

So IE not supporting canvas tag 'officially' isn't really a problem.

EDIT: Just found that ExplorerCanvas has a new home at soundforg. Download here http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=163391


I doubt the possibility of emulating canvas tag in ie using this technique, because its very limited compared to canvas (for example, its not possible to draw lines).

This technique can bring cross-browser support of drawing polygons.




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