Yep. See, I'm from the days when IE6 was just fine, and we all loathed IE5.5/Mac (and weird proprietary Netscape stuff). My first HTML and CSS books listed comp

Yep. See, I'm from the days when IE6 was just fine, and we all loathed IE5.5/Mac (and weird proprietary Netscape stuff). My first HTML and CSS books listed compatibility issues for every browser for every technique. This was expected knowledge. For me, as a designer, the lack of alpha transparency support is annoying indeed, but it's pretty rare that a design absolutely requires true alpha transparency. Usually you can ape it during slicing, unless the "below" elements move, in which case I'll look to SuperSleight and what not.