Avoiding IE8 Breakage?! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Ken Task   
Monday, 22 December 2008 06:27
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Being a "web head" from waaaay back, it's always been an interest when new browser versions are released - and an "adventure".  When beginning to work with Joomla CMS ran into a situation with IE which wouldn't render certain templates correctly.  The fix was simple enough, but involved placing a line in the default page with instructions for IE browsers only.  The line was for meta data and one had to type: "quirks mode please".   At first glance, one thinks that's got to be a joke, but after trying it (simple enough to reverse) it did indeed work!  Even took out the word "please" once to see what happened ... uhhh, nope, you had to ask politely or it would not work ... go figure! (most of you readers who frequent this area probably know how much restraint the author is exercising here ... no "soap box" and "rant and rave"!)

Well, MS is about to release version 8 of IE and as in the past webmasters will/might have to make some "adjustments" to their pages. Found a ZDnet blog article that talks about it so ISD webmasters out there might want to keep this URL reference as well as "tip":

URL: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=619&tag=nl.e539

and this little clip of meta tag:
		<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=EmulateIE7″ />
The author of the ZDnet blog has been testing IE8 for some time now and has been investigating which major sites will appear to be broken.  Author listed them in a IE 8 Compatibility Hall of Shame:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=619&page=2

And listed ... Dell Support, SlashDot, and Google Analytics to name a few!

Might also be aware of this resource:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/cc405106.aspx
which reportedly has  a wizard for addressing the issue.

NOTE: if you use IE8 and this sites template "breaks", please let me know! :)

Yours, in the "spirit of sharing" and keeping web pages viewable/useable!,
Ken
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