Ok so I've inherited some old GWT code ...
It is just a TabLayoutPanel, each tab's content is wrapped in an AbsolutePanel and then added to the TabLayoutPanel.
The problem is in IE8 only the first (intially selected) tab displays properly. All other tabs when you change to them have only a 32x32 pixel area for the content so it is obviously not displaying properly.
If you resize the window the tab content area resizes correctly and is rendered OK.
I see the same behavior when creating the most basic of TabLayoutPanels as described here in the GWT javadoc: http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/javadoc/2.0/index.html?com/google/gwt/user/client/ui/RootLayoutPanel.html
... is there a known fix to this issue? I have been looking around and fooling with the settings for a few hours and haven't had any success :(