David, I have discovered problems in IE 7 that
do not appear in IE 8 "compatibility mode," Compatibility mode is a weird best-of-both-worlds, neither-man-nor-beast setup — I wouldn't bother catering for it and certainly wouldn't use it to emulate IE7 behaviour. Hit F12 to get IE8's developer tools [1]: browser mode is the second from leftermost menu entry. To all intents and purposes, rendering, script handling etc are identical to IE7. [1] Screenshot: http://barneycarroll.com/ie8_browser-mode.png Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com 07594 506 381 On 16 January 2011 22:38, David Hucklesby <huckle...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/16/11 1:01 PM, Barney Carroll wrote: > >> Hey Gabriele, >> >> I can't test my pages in IE7/6 anymore, since I switched to Win 7 >> >> >> [...] Generally I find that only IE6 on XP (IE6-on-XPSP3.exe) is >> >> necessary, since IE8's IE7 emulation has been by and wide perfect in >> my experience. >> >> > Hmm. Not my experience at all. I have discovered problems in IE 7 that > do not appear in IE 8 "compatibility mode," and vice versa. "Page zoom" > in particular behaves very differently in some constructs. > > Sadly, I have not kept a record of when this happened... :( > > Apologies for interrupting this thread. > > -- > Cordially, > David > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
