Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 has been released. The night before a big PR thing in Melbourne (Premier of Victoria, etc) and I decided to install it on my demo laptop. Brave, yet safe move.
What about this website?
Not so good. Something is broken somewhere. In the week before TechEd 2008 I don’t have time to completely diagnose and fix the wordpress template. So, sort of like welding it together for a few weeks until things die down – it is time for a simple fix.
How can you tell? See the “broken document†icon on the right of the URL: this indicates that the site has been designed for older browsers.
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There are two potential fixes. One is to click on the broken icon, and Internet Explorer will revert to Internet Explorer 7 mode.
A smarter fix for this web site is a one-line change to my template (in my case, header.php for this template)
<meta http-equiv=“X-UA-Compatible” content=“IE=EmulateIE7” />
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Refreshing the site, and magically it renders correctly, and there is no “broken†document icon.
