I forgot to mention in my previous post that you shouldn’t be surprised if you see web pages displaying incorrectly in IE8. The reason is that Microsoft has decided to add a super standards mode to IE8. According to Mary Jo Foley in the ZDNet Forums blog,
That mode (super standards) was set to be one of three supported in the next version of Microsoft’s browser. (The other two are “quirks” mode, which will be compatible with current IE pages and applications and a “standards” mode, which will be the same as what’s offered by IE 7 and “compatible with current content.”) In super-standards mode, early internal builds of IE 8 passed the Acid2 standards tests, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft originally planned to make the super-standards mode an opt-in choice and the IE 7 “standards” mode the default — claiming that by doing so, Microsoft would ensure better backwards-compatibility with existing Web sites and applications. But that decision angered those who felt Microsoft was shirking its commitment to make IE more standards-compliant.
So what to do? Easy—run IE8 in Compatibility view. Do this by going to Tools > Compatibility View Settings. At the bottom of the window that appears, put a check next to Display all websites in Compatibility View. Click Close. Now all websites you go to will display properly.
Tags: Compatibility View, Internet Explorer 8, RC1
I still don’t trust it. Sorry – sticking with IE7 for awhile longer.
As Cole Porter says, “That’s alright with me!”