IE8 Compliance

[whitebus]

Anyone know a good resource or a list of common changes between ie7 and ie8 to update css, php, javascript webpages?

i've inherited a website that does display correctly with compatibility view, so i suppose i could just update the meta:
<metahttp-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

with:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" >

but i was thinking about a long term update.
perhaps http://www.w3.org/ has something buried in there i haven't been able to find, or i shudder to think msdn may be acknowledging some problems.

[misson]

See "IE8 Readiness Toolkit", which links to pages that cover specific technologies (e.g. CSS, HTML) in more detail. The IEBlog also has information about IE8, but it will probably take longer to find information you're interested in.

W3 wouldn't have anything like that because specific browsers aren't their concern and they have no hand in coding browsers (other than Amaya).

[mattura]

It still annoys me that IE8 doesn't comply with the standards...For goodness' sake, Google rewrote the entire javascript engine for Chrome and it didn't take them long...it wouldn't take much...

[misson]

It still annoys me that IE8 doesn't comply with the standards...For goodness' sake, Google rewrote the entire javascript engine for Chrome and it didn't take them long...it wouldn't take much...

To be fair, MS had a bug fix/new feature/time tradeoff they had to deal with. They had many, many bugs to fix in a way that didn't break too many pages. Google didn't have as much legacy code or bugs to deal with, so they could focus on features.

[mattura]

yes, but it's the legacy code (shudder) that is the problem...rewriting from scratch is often a faster option - sometime you just have to be brave and go for a re-write.