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just messing around. chrome/ff are mean. this little trick results in frameless chrome, but what appears to be a 2px frame around standard windows. it's actually 3 if you count the stroke that wraps the windows. because of windows aero's weird padding = sizing margins and there isn't anything you can do about it, thing, my corner curves are squished by exactly 1px, but i'll fix it by stretching my image by exactly 1 px ;)

if you're curious, this works by using default aero size/margins on the images and setting padding to 2. you can tweak some settings after reducing the padding to 0 to fix the way it squishes your image, but that doesn't play nice with chrome. it also uses the old shadow frame trick where about 5px's of the frame images is actually shadow. the difference this time is that i'm working with the 2px padding setting to ensure chrome looks good

it's a little irritating how chrome/ff doesn't conform to the windows windows standard. they apparently attach the toolbar to the window, then wrap the whole thing in a transparent black stroke. then force it about 2 pixels wider/taller than standard windows so it sits on top of the stroke that's built into the frame. ya know how they could have fixed that? transparent toolbar + don't fuck with the window
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~axlmark Apr 26, 2012
Nice
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~Delta909 Apr 26, 2012
That Visual style is really nice :). Nice work :).
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~FallingDark Apr 26, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Yeah, that annoys me, too. I can't really use borderless visual styles because they make Chrome/Firefox look so bad--and they're even weirder looking when the window is maximized.
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~Andrew35133 Oct 11, 2012
Any borderless vs that you would recommend? I've been looking for one that stay with the Windows 7 look just without borders.
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~FallingDark Oct 11, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
The Aero theme, but without the borders? No, I can't say I've seen one like that.
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~Aaron-A-Arts Apr 26, 2012  Student Digital Artist
i'm going for a best of both worlds approach to try and make it usable. chrome looks pretty good, but i need to do some work on the standard frames. it's a shame ff/chrome decided to enforce frames this way
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~FallingDark Apr 26, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I'd like to see how it turns out! Just as long as more theme devs are able to use your technique.
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Mood: Wow! ~RaymonVisual Apr 26, 2012
Interesting bro! well done. ;)
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~Andrrei1992 Apr 26, 2012
vs? :D
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~Aaron-A-Arts Apr 26, 2012  Student Digital Artist
if i get it right i'll probably release it as is with absolutely no chance of updates based on user feedback lol
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