Time to cull the hacks?

No, not a call to arms against poor journalism. Info from the IE blog.

"We’re starting to see the first round of sites and pages breaking due to the CSS fixes we have made. We would like to ask your help in cleaning up existing CSS hacks in your pages for IE7. It is has been our policy since IE6 that under quirks doctype we will not make any behavioral changes so that existing pages will continue to render unmodified, but under the strict doctype we want to change behavior to be as compliant as possible with the web standards"

Whats affected then?

• html > body - http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ChildHack
  
• * html - http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StarHtmlHack
  
• head:first-child + body - http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/tests/owen/
  
• head + body - http://www.dithered.com/css_filters/css_only/head_adjacent_sibling_body.html
  
• body > element - http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ChildHack

What do Microsoft Suggest then?

We ask that you please update your pages to not use these CSS hacks. If you want to target IE or bypass IE, you can use conditional comments .

UPDATE: What does the godfather of CSS think to these suggestions?

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