Is there a list of IE8 code issues online somewhere?

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I'm busy putting the finishing touches to my demo' page.

It's got a massive amount of CSS code, amongst quite a few other things...

I am a dedicated Firefox user and my page works flawlessly with it. It is in Standards mode and is valid code.

In IE8 (the only IE available to me at the office) it fails miserably.

Sometimes I can see a flash of what it should look like, for a second, but then it degrades to almost minimal CSS.

99% of the time I cannot even get the F'ing thing to load in IE8 - it crashes.

Last night I used a free online snapshot tool to check the live test version in IE7 and IE8 and it showed the same problem.

Is there a list of severe known bugs in IE8 that I can reference to get around this, please?

Thanks.
 
Have you tested it in other browsers yet? Maybe webkit-based browsers like Chrome ad Safari? You should make a point of not developing for a single browser, regardless of your preference...
 
I don't have access to Chrome/Safari, but the one guy at the office does - I will check it out on his machine when it's available.

I develop for Firefox first and adapt it for the others after.
 
Wait for Raithlin to post in this thread. Do what he says...
 
ie8 is fairly standards compliant.
ie7 and lower aren't.
are you using a cms framework?
is it css or js breaking the page?
you shouldn't develop to the platform which you like the best.
you should develop to the platform which your greatest audience uses.
 
I haven't been able to find the fault. As soon as I try and load the page into IE8 the browser usually hangs and I end up having to kill it.

Perhaps it's a c*ck-up on just this machine - I'll hijack a colleague's later on.

No CMS.

I am a big advocate of web standards and compliant code and as such punt Firefox (my opinion) as much as possible, both on and off of my websites.

I code first for Firefox and then make adjustments where necessary for the other browsers.

I've seen my webstats steadily show an increase in FF and a related drop off in IE usage as time's progressed - all while growing my web traffic.
 
you don't need to use online snapshot tools if you have an windows testing environment.
just bring up the developer console using F12 in ie and choose ie7 as the target environment and standards set.
post a link - we can't do anything unless we can see your code.

if you're unsure about css standards compatibility, check here:
http://www.quirksmode.org/compatibility.html
as you can see, ie8 doesn't have too many issues with css2.

it's not wise to be doing critical layout in css3 right now.
if you have to use css3, use it for non-critical elements and make it degradable with hacks or conditional stylesheets.

try killing your js and css alternatively. i highly doubt that css would kill ie8 - it's more likely a script bug.
 
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murraybiscuit said:
try killing your js and css alternatively. i highly doubt that css would kill ie8 - it's more likely a script bug.
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Same thing I thought... I've never seen a single instance where CSS caused a browser to hang or "flash" some form of layout and then degrade to minimal CSS. What does that even mean, "minimal CSS"? It sounds like the CSS being rendered properly according to what the selectors should be doing, then some script that gets loaded and applied after the page renders screws up the DOM.
 
I don't suppose you have a snapshot of the code that we can help you check?

You could try bringing IE up to scratch - using a script (or this if you're using HTML5). I've found this to be the quickest way to come right. Alternatively, you can do it yourself using the web - good luck with that though.

First thing I would ask is what your <!DOCTYPE> is - getting IE to use strict instead of quirks mode is always a good step in the right direction. More than that I can't say without seeing at least some code.

[EDIT]: To answer your first question: Solutions to CSS Browser Bugs and Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform CSS Issues - but I'd have to agree with the others that it sounds like a script is messing you up.
 
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Guys,

Thanks for your replies and help.

I have solved the problem.

First off, let me just say that IE8 is incredibly brittle when it comes to code it doesn't like. What a pos.

Secondly, the problem was traced to Microsoft's own code! I was using an IE-only stylesheet to apply a rotation to an element and this made the whole thing crash massively.

It's bizarre as this code was carried over untouched from another recent project.

At any rate, all my attempts to fix it have failed and I have placed it in my 'To Do' folder.

Remarkably little hacking was needed to get the page working in IE (in addition to using the IE update javascript file), but the fact remains that web standards are the least of MS' worries.

Cheers, Nic
 
Mikroz said:
I was using an IE-only stylesheet to apply a rotation to an element and this made the whole thing crash massively.
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you mean text rotation... i wasn't aware that was a w3c css spec?

Mikroz said:
the fact remains that web standards are the least of MS' worries.
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or your's either it would seem :D
on a cautionary note, try stay away from ms filters as much as possible.
glad to see you came right.
 
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CSS 3. :)

It's been used in a coding demo' as I wanted to show off the potential.

It's also used variably by IE, so it all degrades and validates as it should. ;)

Some of the neater aspects of coding for FF and the other browsers aren't available for IE without the use of filters unfortunately.
 
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