Internet Explorer 8 Issues?

System

Anyone else seeing rendering issues with IE8 Beta 2? If there is already a thread on this, please feel free to redirect me.

My site renders fine with IE7/6/etc. But with IE8B2, the header is chopped. Compatability Mode works as expected.

I haven't tested but I am thinking I may be able to workaround the issue with:

****** http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"/>

Can anyone confirm?

Site: rollingstockphoto.smugmug.com

Thanks for any guidance!

-Jim

ivar

Hi Jim,

What you are seeing, may be a problem with IE 8beta.

As beta programs are still 'beta' and subject to change, we don't support those. We support IE6 and 7, but not 8beta, I'm sorry.



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GallagherImages

Thanks Ivar for the quick response and welcome!! I completely understand the stance with Beta software. I was just trying to be proactive about making sure our sites renders for most browswers when IE8 ships.

IE6/7 renders my site as expected. As does IE8 in Compatibility Mode which points to a possible issue with the rendering. I do know that there are some significant changes with IE8 specifically where IE8 uses Standards Mode by default. Any pages designed for IE7 Standards Mode may cause misaligned layouts and overlapping text/images (exactly what I am seeing). FWIW, I see similar issues with a few other pro sites. My site chops the custom banner at the top and misaligns the text on the menu bar.

I realize this is something we can dig into post-release of IE8 but if you want to chat, feel free to PM offline. Thanks again!!

BTW, I changed my DGrin account to reflect some business changes.

{JT}

GallagherImages wrote:

I was just trying to be proactive about making sure our sites renders for most browswers when IE8 ships.

Most browsers (including the first month after IE8 ships) , will not include IE8. Most browsers will still be IE6/7 and FF2 (we still have at least 25% of all visitors using IE6).

But don't worry - when MS starts throwing out release candidates we will get busy looking for solutions to any problems found

GallagherImages

Any Updates to IE8 & SM rendering issues?
Just seeing if there are any workarounds to some of the banner rendering issues since IE8RC1 has been out for a bit. Anything we can test with?

{JT} wrote:

Most browsers (including the first month after IE8 ships) , will not include IE8. Most browsers will still be IE6/7 and FF2 (we still have at least 25% of all visitors using IE6).

But don't worry - when MS starts throwing out release candidates we will get busy looking for solutions to any problems found

Andy

GallagherImages wrote:

Just seeing if there are any workarounds to some of the banner rendering issues since IE8RC1 has been out for a bit. Anything we can test with?

No, I'm sorry. We'll have support when it's out for real.

Official browsers supported by SmugMug right now: IE6/7, Firefox, Safari.

jfriend

GallagherImages wrote:

Just seeing if there are any workarounds to some of the banner rendering issues since IE8RC1 has been out for a bit. Anything we can test with?

You might be interested to know that your banner doesn't display on Firefox 3 either. Though I don't have IE8, I think it's just an issue with your CSS.

In your CSS, change the values in red to match your actual banner image size and it then works in Firefox 3.

.smuglogo {
  width: [COLOR=red]400[/COLOR]px !important;
  height: [COLOR=red]28[/COLOR]px !important;
  filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled=true,
  sizingMethod=image src='http://www.smugmug.com/photos/383355718_GcmvR-S.gif') !important;
  margin-left: -15px;}