The platform preview, downloadable from the Internet Explorer website, comes with a number of demonstrations including those for CSS3 border-radius and selectors. The preview also scores an impressive 578/578 on our CSS3 Selectors Test and an improved 55/100 on the Acid 3 test, with further improvements promised before the final release.

You can read more on the Internet Explorer blog, or download the platform preview here.

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Note: this bug does apear in IE 7 and 8 beta. (This is only an IE bug no other browsers are affected)

“IE 6 Ghost text” bug is usually triggered when two or more standard HTML comments () are placed between floated elements (such as DIV, UL,…).
It is beeing called “Ghost text” because this bug outputs characters duplicated from the last floated element, and the thing is that if you look at the source code, they are not there.

CSS usually used for two floated elements:

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.floated_element_1,
.floated_element_2 {
float:left;
width:200px; /* this is just for float to actualy work correctly */
}

HTML code usually used for two floated elements (for this example I used DIVs):

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<!-- SOME COMMENT 1 / start -->
<div class="floated_element_1">
Some content in this fancy div no.1
</div>
<!-- SOME COMMENT 1 / end -->
 
<!-- SOME COMMENT 2 / start -->
<div class="floated_element_2">
Some content in this fancy div no.2
</div>
<!-- SOME COMMENT 2 / start -->

You could remove the comments between the floated elements and solve the problem, but you want to keep them because you want your code to be organized and understandable to other people…

So, let’s keep those comments and fix the problem by adding the following CSS fix:

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* html .floated_element_1,
* html .floated_element_2 {
display:inline; /* IE 6 fix */
}

This fix may not resolve your problem as there are also other situations and actions reported that may create this IE 6 error.
For more information use Google.com and search for the therm “IE 6 Ghost text bug” or something similar.