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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I have spent few days adding new features to Starscape, and I managed to make theme work in Safari, Opera, Firefox and IE7. But now I am trying to sort things out with IE6 and a lot of things are still the problem. This blog now runs on latest internal beta version of Starscape 1.10. As you can see there are a lot of new features, soon to be available for public use.

There are two main problems with IE6: PNG and Box Model.

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