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You can add the meta tag to force IE7 compatible rendering. Your site continues to work, no changes are made to the web site and life is happy for everyone.

That said, i'm curious about the "forced to properly handle CSS" bit; IE8 has been pretty big win for CSS standards, but I could be missing the bandwagon. ;)

HTML change necessary to force emulated IE7 rendering involves adding a meta tag immediately after the head node.

<head>
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"/>
    ...
</head>

Gabriel Isenberg 2008-10-09 16:28:36

I like it, heres a quick article I read about this also... I did not know about it before. http://www.onenaught.com/posts/52/ie8-meta-switch-ie7

Patcouch22 2008-10-09 16:37:15

Answer 2

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Personally I find that it really depends on the audience, and the level of effort needed to fix the issue.

If I can make a quick, couple hour fix to make it compliant, even if it is for a small subset of users, great! However, if it is much more involved, then I start to balance the potential adoption rate, the potential for Microsoft to change the behavior again, etc.

Will MS change the CSS? I don't think anyone really knows that answer....

Mitchel Sellers 2008-10-09 16:29:03

Answer 3

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I would wait until they release - maybe make a simpler version that you can quickly switch to for IE8 just in case, but don't trust anything you see in a beta version.

tloach 2008-10-09 16:29:24

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