Obligatory IE7 Beta 1 Post, Part 2

More from Chris Wilson over at the IEBlog about the changed they’re implementing in standards support that will be seen in IE7b2:

In addition we’ve added support for the following

• HTML 4.01 ABBR tag
• Improved (though not yet perfect)
• CSS 2.1 Selector support (child, adjacent, attribute, first-child etc.)
• CSS 2.1 Fixed positioning
• Alpha channel in PNG images
• Fix :hover on all elements
• Background-attachment: fixed on all elements not just body</blockquote>

There’s quite a substantial list of changes planned for beta 2, including the above. Ambitious plans indeed. Hopefully their goal of removing the worst painful bugs that make our platform difficult to use for web developers does indeed do that and doesn’t just leave us with a different set of difficulties.

But I’ll be positive, and hopeful, and wait for beta 2 to see the light of day.