Transition to IE8 with DOCTYPE HTML 4.01 Transitional
We use in all our pages in the first line of our HTML code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
We're moving on to the new IE8 and we want to keep the DOCTYPE intact, are there any suggestions / warnings we'd better know about?
What I mean is, "Be careful that the minimum CSS width no longer works in IE8 transition mode, be careful that it crosses out the page in this and that and so on."
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If your page works in IE7 and works in more standardized browsers, it will most likely work in IE8. IE8 is getting closer to meeting standards; not many significant regressions.
If your page only works in IE7, or works in IE7 (compared to other browsers) using a different code path that is based on IE7 bugs, you might have more work to do. In the meantime, you can tell IE8 to behave like IE7 by using the title / meta X-UA-Compatible: EmulateIE7
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See IEBlog for details on IE7 / IE8 differences .
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