IE8 tips

PMWD · 11 May 2009 at 13:05

Hi

I'm having some issues with IE8 rendering CSS navigation.

I've tried <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" /> and on some machines it's ok but not on others.

What hacks have people found to work ok?

Thanks

Paul

Confused · 11 May 2009 at 13:09

Do you have the correct DOCTYPE specified?

PMWD · 11 May 2009 at 13:19

Hi, yeah, the weird thing is mine and everybody elses displays it fine, it's just my account managers browser that shows different issues to the ones it had before I implemented the X-UA tag.

It's got me a bit puzzled.

probedb · 11 May 2009 at 13:32

Why are you forcing IE8 into IE7 rendering mode?

PMWD · 11 May 2009 at 13:39

I've got different stylesheets setup for each browser with it's own settings in it, I'm not sure yet between the rendering differences of IE7 and IE8 so wanted to keep them working on IE7 while I implement a long term solution.

If you've any suggestions regardless of the length of fix I'd be more welcome to hear them.

furnace · 11 May 2009 at 14:19

IETester + DebugBar. Get it working properly in Firefox and IE8, then fix for IE7, then use conditional comments for an IE6 stylesheet. Anyone using <IE6 doesn't deserve the internet.

Edward01 · 11 May 2009 at 14:42

furnace said:
Anyone using <IE6 doesn't deserve the internet.

+1

suarve · 11 May 2009 at 15:47

furnace said:
IETester + DebugBar. Get it working properly in Firefox and IE8, then fix for IE7, then use conditional comments for an IE6 stylesheet. Anyone using <IE6 doesn't deserve the internet.

Am doing websites for a council at the minute and have to make sure everything works in IE 6 unfortunately as council upgrades/updates are so slow. Was just spoeaking to a manager who is still using IE 4 - was in shock tbh.

PMWD · 11 May 2009 at 18:37

Yeah unfortunately it seems there's a lot of even software/hardware solutions based clients we have, have still got IE6 lurking around on their machines.

Deleted User 234324 · 11 May 2009 at 18:44

Had the same problem in my work as well with people using old browsers, so set about 1 day going around all branches and making sure they all had IE7 installed atleast.

The number of people that pay no attention to the windows update thing is shocking. More to the point what on earth are their IT departments doing, as they clearly arent securing the computer systems by ensuring they are upto date.