• From: Montreal Canada
  • Registered: December 19, 2008
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Topic: IE8 does not render web pages like IE7 or Firefox

Hi,

I finally decided to take a look at my web pages in IE8 since it was out of beta. Overall it seems to be OK ... but, I did find some elements in my pages that were not rendering well.

So what to take away from this, is that Microsoft hasn't been able to keep the browser experience consistent between versions of their own browsers.

PS: the part of my page that does not work in IE8, works fine in:

- IE6
- IE7
- Firefox
- Safari.

... Man!

sad

Stefan

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  • From: Salisbury UK
  • Registered: December 20, 2008
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Re: IE8 does not render web pages like IE7 or Firefox

If you can't find a solution for IE8 without a lot of recoding, it's simpler to force viewers to use the IE7 compatibility mode by putting this code just after the <head> tag, (not further down the head tag because if it's after some other items in the head it doesn't work):-

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

close with /> for XHTML

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  • From: Montreal Canada
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Re: IE8 does not render web pages like IE7 or Firefox

I think the best solution for now is to use the meta tag you suggest.

... Frankly, I am getting tired of continually having to create new style sheets for IE.

Stef

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  • From: Golden, BC
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Re: IE8 does not render web pages like IE7 or Firefox

Here is my favourite IE-only CSS file:

body { display:none; }

lol

My signature goes here --> X

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  • Eric
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Re: IE8 does not render web pages like IE7 or Firefox

Ie8 doesn't even do overflow auto with max height. Among others...

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=618830

Last edited by Eric (May 31, 2009 3:36 pm)

www.visibilityinherit.com/tools.php

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  • From: Montreal Canada
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Re: IE8 does not render web pages like IE7 or Firefox

jlhaslip wrote:

Here is my favourite IE-only CSS file:

body { display:none; }

lol

Funny stuff.

lol

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