Thank you for the feedback and info on the upcoming IE7. I’m very glad that IE 7 has matured significantly since the last release of IE 6 a few years ago. I have used a IE7 beta release (beta 2 I believe) and it’s very clean and impressive.

So good work on the PNG and take back the reputation of Microsoft’s high quality software! I still love my Windows PC more than anything.

We have implemented support for transparent PNG in IE7 (not the IE6 library named ‘IE7′, but the new version of the browser at http://www.microsoft.com/ie). You can find more details at http://alexle.net/archives/84.

We worked pretty closely with partners like Y! to prioritize the fixes for IE6 “insanity”, and this is one of the fixes we prioritized. Please do let me know if it’s still a problem in the new version (joshuaa at microsoft dot com). The fix was not in earlier builds of IE7, and of course IE6 will still be the dominant browser for the next 6-8 months, so it is still necessary to do the hack — but you can be certain we are working hard to put it to bed.