#ie8 (6 links)
- IE 8 still does not resize text sized in pixels | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
"Yes, there is full page zoom (which works much better in IE 8 than in IE 7), but the controls for resizing text only are still there, and they still do not work when pixels or an absolute unit has been used." Still? Doh.
- IEBlog : Just The Facts: Recap of Compatibility View blogs.msdn.com
This whole situation is so wrong.
An API that you can use to check whether your site is included in IE8's Compatibility View blacklist. Simply add your domain name to the URL and you'll be returned either YES if your site is on the current blacklist, or NO if it's not.
- IEBlog : Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8 blogs.msdn.com
Old, but I keep misplacing this link. "We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously."
Via scrubadub.
- Digital Web Magazine - Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong digital-web.com
"When released, Internet Explorer 8 will support many new values for the CSS display property, including the table-related values: table, table-row, and table-cell—and it’s the last major browser to come on board with this support. This event will mark the end of complex CSS layout techniques" assuming one doesn't care about IE6, IE7 or source order.