Please, Let IE7 Play Nice With CSS

As a guy who makes his living making applications work well *and* look good to the client, I'm really hoping that the new IE7 will improve it's CSS standards compliance. I use Firefox almost exclusively, with two exceptions. First, WebTrends requires that you use IE to view online reports, and second, I use it to see how horrible my code looks when rendered in IE. It never fails, I then have to spend hours tweaking (read as: cheating) the CSS to get things to look somewhat the same between IE and Mozilla.

Here's to hoping that this issue is going to get easier to deal with. To support that slim chance, we have these comments from Chris Wilson:

In IE7, we will fix as many of the worst bugs that web developers hit as we can, and we will add the critical most-requested features from the standards as well.

That MSN blog entry also lists quite a few bugs they've already squashed, as well as a promises that more will go with Beta 2.