Are the badges supposed to look broken?

Question

I'm on IE7, and all the badges look something like:

/- -----------|
|o description|
\- -----------|
  ^
  | gap right there, see it?

(Very rough sketch, and apologies for the ASCII art, but it's the best I can do right now.)

Is this intentionally to go along with the "sketchy" theme, or is it an IE7 problem?

Also, I'd like to take this opportunity to silently weep about my user id number.

Rebecca Chernoff · Answer 1 · 2010-07-08 21:25:43Z

up vote 3 down vote

Here is what I see on Chrome 6.0.453.1 dev:

badges

When I first looked at your ASCII art, I thought you meant the tags, but those look ok to me too:

tags

EDIT: Gah! Compatibility mode didn't toggle when I thought I switched it over to test. Thought I'd throw up a screenshot to go with the ASCII art.

alt text

EDIT2: This isn't just Webmasters, so I posted on Meta.

edited Jul 8 '10 at 21:25

answered Jul 8 '10 at 20:29

Rebecca Chernoff
1,36546

	The tags are fine, but the badges definitely do not look like your screenshot. (There aren't any ragged edges on the top, either, which I didn't even realize was a problem.) – mmyers Jul 8 '10 at 20:30
	I've tested in IE, Firefox, and Chrome and they all look the same. I don't think the jagged edges on the top are a problem as it matches the "rougher" feel the rest of the site has. Compare the vote up and down arrows on SO compared to here. Same kind of thing I though. – Rebecca Chernoff Jul 8 '10 at 20:51
	yep, we're looking at this. Sorry about that. – Jeff Atwood♦ Jul 9 '10 at 9:21

Jeff Atwood · Answer 2 · 2010-07-31 07:46:45Z

up vote 2 down vote

This is still being worked on, but turns out to be very, very painful to fix.

It's also 100% specific to IE7.

answered Jul 31 '10 at 7:46

Jeff Atwood♦
7,761212

no wonder... its a javascript problem, not a CSS one. that code looks ugly, you have my sympathy. – Talvi Watia Sep 17 '10 at 10:44

tnorthcutt · Answer 3 · 2010-07-08 20:24:49Z

up vote 1 down vote

They do not look broken to me (using Chrome v5 beta).

answered Jul 8 '10 at 20:24

tnorthcutt
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In that case, I guess it's a bug. – mmyers Jul 8 '10 at 20:28

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