Hover the mouse cursor over the link in the non-text part of the link, that is on the right hand side of the text.
The background-color will remain white.
The background-color should become silver.
Firefox 2, Opera 9, Safari 2, Safari 3.0.2, Seamonkey 1.x, K-meleon 1.x, Seamonkey 2.x, Hv3 TKHTML alpha 16, Konqueror 3.5.8, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, NS 6.1, NS 6.2, NS 7.0, NS 7.1, NS 7.2 all pass this test.
This bug has been reported at connect's IE beta feedback as bug 332625.