EDIT [7/29]: Attention, especially to the judges, Potassium can be downloaded from this post instead.

EDIT: It’s now called Potassium because I find it more suitable (light grey/silver) and Silver Solemnity was a wee bit too long.

Yes, that’s right, I’m 98% done with my Sandbox Designs Competition entry. You may take a look around and report to me any CSS inconsistencies. Any!

This is also my very first WordPress theme I’m offering for download. Because it’s based on Sandbox, Potassium will be licensed under the GNU GPLv2. I’m choosing version 2 because I’m not too familiar with the GPLv3 yet so I don’t wanna end up in any trouble. Yeah.

Some of the files have been customized here, but all Sandbox files will remain untouched in my public ZIP release.

Due to the SDC’s rules and regulations I will only release Potassium for download tomorrow (the link will appear in this post, below the first paragraph). The deadline is tomorrow at 8:00 am in my timezone, so yeah.

Oh and by the way, I don’t know whether I’ve mentioned it before so I’ll say it right here: NOVALISTIC 3.0 and Potassium will not display properly in Internet Explorer 6. Even more so for NOVALISTIC because I’m sick and tired of wasting time and typing for that pile of shit. About 20% of my SDC entry’s CSS (which is 1100 lines long… about 800 lines without comments and blank lines) is made up of star-html hacks and these:

selector {
    /*
    This takes advantage of IE6's expanding box bug
    and the fact that it doesn't understand min-height.
    */
    height: auto !important;
    height: 100px;
    min-height: 100px;
    /* Other properties... */
}

It’s pissing me off. I may include a couple more star-html hacks just to have NOVALISTIC display sanely in IE6, but I won’t spend any other effort on it. There are so many alternatives:

  • Firefox, duh.
  • Safari (no, not the world’s best browser)
  • Opera suite; fastest ever, you can’t deny!
  • Camino for Mac
  • SeaMonkey (suite)
  • If you’re such a crazed Microsoft worshipper, fine, at least upgrade to IE7 because it’s more standards-compliant though still not quite.

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