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Or this can be used as a speech bubble with the addition of a little CSS pointer. This does require a careful choice of colors for the foreground, border and background to hide the chunky non-anti aliased corners, and it works with javascript off and images off.
Just to show that this can be applied over a background image because the corners have 'transparent' margins and the pointer has transparent borders.