Like it or not, MS Internet Explorer is still the most used browser in the world. The reason for this is MS Windows XP/Vista. IE is bundled with every copy of Windows. Now we have two major IE version:

1. Internet Explorer 6 [IE6]
2. Internet Explorer 7 [IE7]

I will show you what optimizations I needed to add to Starscape to make the theme more compliant with IE6/IE7. Maybe you can use some of this optimizations in developing your own themes.

As for the standard compliance, IE7 is much better, and it’s much easier to make optimizations so theme will work in IE7 as it should. One of the most important improvement for design point of view is full PNG transparency support.
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Last few days I was working on fixing a lot of HTML and CSS used by the theme, and I have managed to make the theme completly XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid and also CSS level 2.1 valid. Latest public version of Starscape (1.0.2) is not valid, there are few bugs in there, but the modified code for this blog is. Next version 1.1.0 is 100% valid. But this is not always enough.

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