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[pdunton]

Just finished testing 3.0b2 with the newly released Internet Explorer 8.

Noticed significant issues with some formatting. The display of category pages is particularly bad in the copy I have set up. Vertical and horizontal alignments are off for example. That the title goes to the top of the content area with no padding, margin is one case.

The pages do display normally in the IE8 "Compatibility View" however.

[Jamie]

I did a lot of testing the last IE 8 beta, and everything appears fine. I just tested the default theme with the final release of IE 8 with compatibility view OFF, and it's working fine. I can't see any of the problems you are referring to.

If you post screenshots of the default Squirrelcart theme (with none of it's theme files altered) that demonstrate the problems you are reporting, I'll look into it further.

[pdunton]

Sorry, I am using a highly customized beta example, albeit using the provided selectors and ids.

Seems to be a matter of CSS interpretation.

FYI signed on the the Scientific American website and got a message that "due to a problem on the page it was being displayed in compatible view mode."

I'm digging in this evening to see what my transgression is that troubles IE8.

[pdunton]

I ran down one of the IE8 formatting problems I noted. This is that a Category Title ran to the very top of its enclosing block element.
I had modified .cat_name with the style top: 40%.
This was to change positioning because I was using a deep Image with the Title.
IE8 ignored that style unless in Compatibility View.
A change to a length value works, top: 40px is fine.

I did not investigate if there are problems with other CSS positioning attributes.

Since this is not a Squirrelcart problem this is definitely not the forum for the thread. However, shortly many users are going to be deploying Squirrelcart 3 and not a single one will be a "Demo Store." Might there be made a forum section where users can note their findings? We've got several new browsers to contend with and noting that using top: XX% in IE8 is a bad idea might save others an hour or so of work.

[Jamie]

Might there be made a forum section where users can note their findings?

This is really a general CSS design issue rather than anything specific to Squirrelcart. You can still post it in "Anything Goes". When version 3 is released, we will be mirroring the same forum category sections you see currently under Squirrelcart v2.x.