Hi Bob,
It’s not the Joomla template kit PHP code it only print’s out the path to your templates images folder and has nothing to do with the image that you’re having an issue with both IE 6 and 7 have issues with PNG images. It’s out of the scope of our support.
What I can tell you is don’t use PNG images the compression is not as good as GIF.
The only thing I know of is the IF conditions your talking about but those are for style sheets not image path issues if you have images in you’re style sheets then add the IF conditions and make a copy of the code pointing to style sheet template_css.css file call it IE6.css or something. Make sure that it the last call so its overrides the master style if the condition is met.
You could try MSDN site.
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This site has the conditions
Hack-free CSS for IE - Arve Bersvendsen
This is why it drives me crazy about the BS about “the standards” what Standers you design a site for a client and six months later knock-knock hey my sites broken fix it for free on your time. But sir it was made with “the standards” ok call Microsoft for your billable hours.
As for you’re question can the Joomla Template Kit fix this I know it’s an issue for designers so I added this to the flow of CSS in the Joomla Template Kit 3.0 version.
See this post The Browser hacks are there this list is going to get long as time goes on.
I can’t track every hack some issues are made when you use div layouts some are when CSS2 is used.
Joomla Template kit 2.5 Beta Progress Report 3
I think we should all switch to FF or Lynx ok just FF.
Cheers,
Brian Diaz