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Agreed.
As far as standards go, they've made some progress (they should have after all this time...) but still have a long way to go. Basically it looks like, along with the tabs and RSS, they implemented a list of "IE can't even do this" and completely ignored the list of full standards that it should follow.
From IEBlog (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/29/445242.aspx), they've fixed the following:
- Peekaboo bug
- Guillotine bug
- Duplicate Character bug
- Border Chaos
- No Scroll bug
- 3 Pixel Text Jog
- Magic Creeping Text bug
- Bottom Margin bug on Hover
- Losing the ability to highlight text under the top border
- IE/Win Line-height bug
- Double Float Margin Bug
- Quirky Percentages in IE
- Duplicate indent
- Moving viewport scrollbar outside HTML borders
- 1 px border style
- Disappearing List-background
- Fix width:auto
In addition we’ve added support for the following
- HTML 4.01 ABBR tag
- Improved (though not yet perfect) <object> fallback
- 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
From my perspective, they still have a lousy browser and will cause me many headaches for years to come.
But they have at least started trying, regardless of the motivation behind it. I have to give the IE developers major props for tackling this monstrosity head-on and taking every lump, criticism and outright flame that follows their posts to the community.
Molly has some intense posts (start here: http://www.molly.com/2005/07/28/thats-why-its-called-beta/ and check the following posts about how much flak she got just for posting it) about the work going on between the WaSPs and the IE team. Major props to her as well...
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Oh, well...