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From: Steve Green
Date: Oct 6, 2009 8:00AM

We have tested quite a bit with it. Some sites are perfect, while others
break horribly. The impression I have gained is that the sites that break
horribly are generally not coded well (e.g. they are relying on browser bugs
to display correctly) or they use conditional comments to work correctly in
Internet Explorer 6 and 7 and need something similar for Internet Explorer
8.

I don't recall seeing any standards-compliant sites break badly, although
they may not render identically to Internet Explorer 7.

We have also seen several sites where JavaScript does not work in IE8 even
though it works in IE7 or in IE8 compatibility mode. I have not diagnosed
any of these but I suspect it is down to bad coding that IE7 tolerates and
IE8 doesn't.

Steve Green
Director
Test Partners Ltd