Quick question. What do you think, I have a few sites that use a 3 level drop-down menu that will be broken if IE8 released with its current CSS standards in IE8 beta2. So do I take the time to redo those drop downs now? I realize that the way they rendered CSS changed completely between beta 1 and 2, but 2 was/is supposed the be a general use beta and seeing as it is the final beta you would think something as crucial as CSS rendering would have been touched up to work properly.
So what do you think, do you wait until 80% (random statistic) of ie7 users automatically update to IE8 and then worry about a broken navigation menu if it still exists. Or do you waste the time now.
… if I had it my way all web developers would just make sure that their page did not work in IE8 and then Microsoft would be forced to properly handle CSS…. But I don’t usually get things my way.
You can add the meta tag to force IE7 compatible rendering. Your site continues to work, no changes are made to the web site and life is happy for everyone.
That said, i’m curious about the ‘forced to properly handle CSS’ bit; IE8 has been pretty big win for CSS standards, but I could be missing the bandwagon. 😉
HTML change necessary to force emulated IE7 rendering involves adding a meta tag immediately after the head node.