diff --git a/wp-admin/sidebar.php b/wp-admin/sidebar.php
index 89d87c871a..dcfd26f733 100644
--- a/wp-admin/sidebar.php
+++ b/wp-admin/sidebar.php
@@ -1,43 +1,32 @@
 <?php
-/* <Sidebar> */
 function selected($selected, $current) {
 	if ($selected == $current) echo ' selected="selected"';
 }
 
-$mode = "sidebar";
+$mode = 'sidebar';
 
 $standalone = 1;
-require_once("admin-header.php");
+require_once('admin-header.php');
 
 get_currentuserinfo();
 
-// just your usual browser thing because we're still too far from standards
-$is_gecko = preg_match("/Gecko/",$HTTP_USER_AGENT);
-$is_winIE = ((preg_match("/MSIE/",$HTTP_USER_AGENT)) && (preg_match("/Win/",$HTTP_USER_AGENT)));
-$is_macIE = ((preg_match("/MSIE/",$HTTP_USER_AGENT)) && (preg_match("/Mac/",$HTTP_USER_AGENT)));
-$is_IE    = (($is_macIE) || ($is_winIE));
-
 if ($user_level == 0)
 	die ("Cheatin' uh ?");
 
-$time_difference=get_settings('time_difference');
+$time_difference = get_settings('time_difference');
 
-if ($a=="b") {
+if ('b' == $HTTP_GET_VARS['a']) {
 
 ?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
+<title>WordPress > Posted</title>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-admin.css" type="text/css" />
 </head>
-<body>
-<br />
-<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="15" width="90%" border="0" style="border-color: #cccccc; border-width:1; border-style: solid;" align="center">
-	<td>
+<body
 	<p>Posted !</p>
 	<p><a href="sidebar.php">Click here</a> to post again.</p>
-	</td>
-</table>
 </body>
 </html><?php
 
@@ -45,90 +34,43 @@ if ($a=="b") {
 
 ?><html>
 <head>
-<title>WordPress > sidebar</title>
+<title>WordPress > Sidebar</title>
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-admin.css" type="text/css">
-
-<style type="text/css">
-<!--
-body {
+<style type="text/css" media="screen">
+form {
 	padding: 3px;
 }
-textarea,input,select {
-	font-family: arial,helvetica,sans serif;
-	font-size: 12px;
-	background-color: transparent;
-	border-width: 1px;
-	border-color: #cccccc;
-	border-style: solid;
-	padding: 2px;
-	margin: 1px;
+.sidebar-categories label {
+	font-size: 10px;
 }
-<?php if (!$is_gecko) { ?>
-.checkbox {
-	background-color: #ffffff;
-	border-width: 0px;
-	padding: 0px;
-	margin: 0px;
-}
-<?php } ?>
--->
 </style>
 </head>
-<body>
-<form name="post" action="post.php" method="POST" accept-charset="iso-8859-1">
-<input type="hidden" name="action" value="post" />
+<body id="sidebar">
+<h1 id="wphead"><a href="http://wordpress.org" rel="external">WordPress</a></h1>
+<form name="post" action="post.php" method="POST">
+<div><input type="hidden" name="action" value="post" />
 <input type="hidden" name="user_ID" value="<?php echo $user_ID ?>" />
 <input type="hidden" name="mode" value="sidebar" />
-
-<input type="text" name="post_title" size="20" tabindex="1" style="width: 100%;" value="Title" onFocus="if (this.value=='Title') { this.value='';}" onBlur="if (this.value=='') {this.value='Title';}" />
-
+<p>Title:
+<input type="text" name="post_title" size="20" tabindex="1" style="width: 100%;" />
+</p>
+<p class="sidebar-categories">Categories: 
 <?php dropdown_categories(); ?>
-		<label for="post_status">Status:</label>
-		<select name="post_status" id="post_status">
-			<option value="publish"<?php selected($post_status, 'publish'); ?>>Publish</option>
-			<option value="draft"<?php selected($post_status, 'draft'); ?>>Draft</option>
-			<option value="private"<?php selected($post_status, 'private'); ?>>Private</option>
-		</select><br />
-		<label for="comment_status">Comments:</label>
-		<select name="comment_status" id="comment_status">
-			<option value="open"<?php selected($comment_status, 'open'); ?>>Open</option>
-			<option value="closed"<?php selected($comment_status, 'closed'); ?>>Closed</option>
-		</select><br />
-		<label for="ping_status">Pings:</label>
-		<select name="ping_status" id="ping_status">
-			<option value="open"<?php selected($ping_status, 'open'); ?>>Open</option>
-			<option value="closed"<?php selected($ping_status, 'open'); ?>>Closed</option>
-		</select><br />
-		<label for="post_password">Post Password:</label>
-		<input name="post_password" type="text" id="post_password" value="<?php echo $post_password ?>" /><br />
-
-<textarea rows="8" cols="12" style="width: 100%" name="content" tabindex="2" class="postform" wrap="virtual" onFocus="if (this.value=='Post') { this.value='';}" onBlur="if (this.value=='') {this.value='Post';}">Post</textarea>
-
-<?php if ($use_pingback) { ?>
-<input type="checkbox" class="checkbox" name="post_pingback" value="1" checked="checked" tabindex="5" id="pingback" /><label for="pingback"> PingBack</label>
-<?php } ?>
-
-<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Blog this !" class="search" tabindex="3" />
-
-<?php
-if ($use_trackback) { ?>
-<br /><label for="trackback"><b>TrackBack</b> an URL:</label><br /><input type="text" name="trackback_url" style="width: 100%" id="trackback" tabindex="7" />
-<?php } ?>
-
-<script language="JavaScript">
-<!--
-//				document.blog.post_content.focus();
-//-->
-</script>
-</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
+</p>
+<p>
+Post:
+<textarea rows="8" cols="12" style="width: 100%" name="content" tabindex="2"></textarea>
+</p>
+<p>
+    <input name="saveasdraft" type="submit" id="saveasdraft" tabindex="9" value="Save as Draft" /> 
+    <input name="publish" type="submit" id="publish" tabindex="6" style="font-weight: bold;" value="Publish" /> 
+  
+</p>
 </div>
-
 </form>
 
-
 </body>
-</html><?php
+</html>
+<?php
 }
-?>
+?>
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