Another thing to remember…

the openair skin for wordpress does transparency in a neat way. rather than an opacity/alpha filter CSS property, it sets the background to transparent with a tiled background. the tiled background is a 75% opaque white png file.

if the browser supports that, it looks great.

if the browser doesn’t support the transparency (or translucency i suppose?), it just shows up as white.

i’ll have to remember that. i like that better than the opacity property, since then other elements within that div are still properly opaque (like photos).