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When I first started building websites, rounded corners required five background images, one for each corner, one for the body, and a prayer that the client wouldn’t ask for a different radius. Then the border-radius property landed, and the entire web collectively sighed with relief. That was over fifteen years ago, and honestly, we’ve been riding that same wave ever since. Just as then, I hope that we can look at this feature as a progressive enhancement slowly making its way to other browsers. I like a good border-radius like any other guy, but the fact is that it only gives us one shape. Round. That’s it. Want beveled corners? Clip-path. Scooped ticket edges? SVG mask. Squircle app icons? A carefully tuned SVG that you hope nobody asks you to animate. We’ve been hacking around the limitations of border-radius for years, and those hacks come with real trade-offs: borders don’t follow