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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d.lighted

I was one of the lucky 100 who managed to secure themself a ticket for the upcoming d.construct conference in Brighton.

d.Construct 2005 is the UK’s first grassroots Web 2.0 conference. It is an affordable, one-day event aimed at those building the latest generation of web-based applications. The event will discuss how new technology is transforming the web from a document delivery system to an application platform. Internationally renowned speakers will discuss hot-topics such as Ajax, using the power of API’s and the future of the mobile web.

According to the site the event sold out in 30 minutes and, to be fair, I'm not surprised at all. It's a great price and a great lineup including Andy Budd, Stuart Landridge and Simon Willison .

It's not all bad news for the (many I would guess) unlucky people who missed out on tickets as it has been suggested that the whole even may be podcast.

Anyone else going?