conditional comments for opera only, or rounded corners opera

[unwashed potato!]

i can easily manage to get ie to see conditional comments for css, but i'm struggling with opera. been doing a bit of googling and people are suggesting that conditional comments are designed for ie only. is this true? if not how would i get opera only to see the css? if it is true, anyone with suggestions how to make opera show rounded corners on a div? atm i have it done with css, then if ie a tiny image is used instead, and i'd like the same for opera.

thanks

 

[unwashed potato!]

You could use PHP

<?php
if(strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Opera') == TRUE)
  {
    CSS FILE
  }
?>

would that require an extra request to the server, or would this information be sent regardless of asking for it?

 

[unwashed potato!]

Having said that, I'm personally of the belief that IE - or any other browser that can't handle border-radius or vendor-specific declarations - can go whistle over something as inconsequential as this trivial decoration difference.

It's not as if any IE/Opera/Non-supporting-browser user* is going to look at a squared div and go "Hey, waitaminute... those corners aren't rounded! I feel wronged and violated!!"


* The only people who care about browser rendering differences are us designers - who actively cross-reference - and our clients... and that's only if we've failed to inform them properly.

i usually agree, but in this case it's only a tiny change to fix the issue, and it's something which once i know will hopefully stick and i'll know it forever, and already know the solution if it came up again but for something more important then just rounded corners.

ie is fine so it's just opera, and checking analytics i've only ever had 2 visitors using opera and 1 for opera mini, and those are probably me checking it out, so i'm not worried.

i'm not on my pc now so wont be checking the simple border radius until sunday but thanks all for the replies.

 

[unwashed potato!]

Just use images on all browsers. Really not worth the hassle for something so trivial.

i agree in this case it's trivial, but as mentioned i'd like to know a solution so that if something a lot more serous pops up i know how to fix it. also i use rounded corners for a box that changes size on each page, something which images wouldn't be able to do without a change in code which will get messy.