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Reputation: 719

Site Not IE 8 Compatible -- Quick Fix?

I've been tasked with debugging and bringing a website into compatibility with IE 8, which I'm surprised to see still dominates the market share of IE users. The site uses HTML, CSS and jQuery with the jQuery UI. There are some HTML5 specific tags and CSS3 selectors in the build. It looks and works well in IE 9 and 10 (at least as far as my IE compatibility settings provide the view for IE 9) as well as the latest Firefox and Chrome, but it's completely "hosed" in IE 8.

The site is visible here: http://www.newschoolaikido.com

It's a total mess in IE 8 and to be perfectly honest I'm not even sure where to begin -- and for someone who has traditionally specialized in tough x-browser compatibility issues that's saying a lot. I will be searching StackOverflow for any helpful advice today on similar issues; meanwhile, if someone could eyeball this in IE 8 and give me any pointers it would be appreciated. Am I going to need a completely different build and a sniffer for this? Also, is there something quick I could do in the meantime while working on it to indicate to users they might want to switch to 9 or 10, or use FF or Chrome, to view the site?

Any advice would be helpful. Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2032

Answers (1)

Jens Aagren
Jens Aagren

Reputation: 62

I would suggest implemeting the Modernizr Javascript library. It optimizes the latest HTML and CSS standards for IE. It should help a great deal, but you might still have to fix certain CSS-rules.

http://modernizr.com/

Upvotes: 3

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