They’re pretty much the same.
{assign_variable:my_template_group=“site”}
{assign_variable:catnum=“6”}
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>
<html xmlns=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<title>{site_name} - PTA Info</title>
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset={charset}” />
<style type=‘text/css’ media=‘screen’>@import “{stylesheet={my_template_group}/cougarcss}”;</style>
<link rel=“alternate” type=“application/rss+xml” title=“RSS” href=”{path={my_template_group}/rss_2.0}” />
<link rel=“alternate” type=“application/atom+xml” title=“Atom” href=”{path={my_template_group}/atom}” />
</head>
<body>
<table width=“780” border=“0” align=“center” cellpadding=“0” cellspacing=“0”>
<tr>
<td id=“banner”>{embed=“parts/banner”}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height=“22” valign=“middle” id=“menubar”> {embed=“parts/topmenu”} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><table width=“100%” border=“0” cellspacing=“0” cellpadding=“14”>
<tr valign=“top”>
<td width=“20%” class=“greenboard”>
{embed=“parts/about_menu”}
{exp:weblog:entries weblog=“special” category=”{catnum}”}
{if title}
<div id=“greenlight”>
{title}
{body}
</div>
{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
{embed=“parts/left_biz”}
</td>
<!—end left sidebar—>
<td bgcolor=”#FFFFFF”>
<!—begin main column—>
<div id=“main_col_sub”>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog=“rt_sidebar” category=”{catnum}”}
{if title}
<div id=“sidebar”>
{title}
{body}
</div>
{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
{exp:weblog:categories weblog=“article” style=“linear” show=”{catnum}” }
<h1>{category_name}</h1>
{/exp:weblog:categories}
{exp:weblog:entries weblog=“article” category=”{catnum}” orderby=“date” sort=“desc” limit=“10” disable=“member_data|trackbacks”}
<div class=“entry”>
{title}
{body}
{extended}
Posted by {author} on {entry_date format=’%m/%d’}.
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</div>
</div>
<!—end main column—>
</td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign=“middle” bgcolor=”#999999” id=“footer”>{embed=“parts/footer”}</td>
</tr>
</table>
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</body>
</html>
1.6 is just more rigid when it comes to statuses.