Tell IE8 to render like IE7
With the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and the recent flip-flop on web standards support, a lot of web developers will likely have some upgrade pains once IE8 does hit the mass market. I have a few spacing issues I need to address but am simply swamped with other things at the moment. Until I can get to those issues I wanted a solution to tell IE8 to render the site as if it were being viewed in IE7. After some searching around, I came across this meta tag that will do the trick:
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=7″ />
for those interested, here’s a sitepoint newsletter (couple issues old) that discusses ie8 standards mode opt-in and browser version targeting.
http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/viewissue.php?id=3&issue=183&format=html