IE8 and front page

[msimonov]

I received an email indicating that with the release of IE8 any web sites
that have features that rely on FP extensions or even just created with front
page will not render correctly if at all in IE8 because of the new compliance
standards...Is this true??? See article below

Microsoft Pushes Devs With Wider IE8 Beta
An anonymous reader recommends a story about the upcoming beta 2 release of
Internet Explorer 8. InternetNews expects that the standards-compliant
default mode will push many developers to update their sites. We've
previously discussed IE8's standards compliance and other features. Quoting:
"Over the years of IE's dominance as the leading browser, designers regularly
tweaked their sites to get the best possible accuracy in rendering pages in
IE -- most recently, the current commercial release, IE7. Now those pages
will need to be changed. Microsoft originally planned for IE8 to default to
rendering similarly to IE7, while super standards mode would have been an
option. The outcry from critics helped convince Microsoft officials to
instead default to super standards. That, unfortunately, will mean work for
site administrators."

Here is a scenario I have been afraid might come to pass (and apparently it
will).

Microsoft ships Internet Explorer 8 via automatic Windows Update in late
2008 or early 2009. Everyone who had been running IE7 starts running IE8.
IE8 will be delivered from Microsoft configured by default to run in “super
standards modeâ€. IE8 running in “super standards mode†will NOT display
older web pages that are not standards compliant.

All your FrontPage web pages won’t display properly in IE8.

 

[Ronx]

All my pages display the same (if not better) in IE8 than in IE6, IE7 or
FireFox2. This includes pages that use FrontPage navigation components
and VML graphics - VML does not render in FireFox so VML is best
avoided.

Any FrontPage website can be built to render correctly in any browser,
but the webmaster must have some knowledge of HTML, CSS and the browsers
that will be used.

Note that the only hack I use is to make the site render correctly in
IE5.5, and this is HTML conditional comments that bring in additional
style sheets.

For those worried about rendering in IE8 a meta tag can be added to
every page that forces IE8 to render pages as IE7:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288472(VS.85).aspx#compat