IE 8 beta 2 - IE 8 website not rendering properly

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chakkaradeep

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#25675 28-Aug-2008 20:30

Hi All,

Installed IE 8 beta 2 in my laptop. Laptop specs,

1) Macbook 2.4 GHz
2) 4 GB
3) Vista Ultimate 64 bit Operating System

The IE 8 website is totally screwed up. You can see a screenshot here

Anybody getting this error?

Regards,
Chaks

Desktop : Intel Quad Core Q9400 2.66GHz - 8GB RAM - 500 GB + 500 GB HDD - NVidia GeForce 9800GT - LG246WH Flatron Display - Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with Hyper-V
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Laptop: HP dv7-3004TX Entertainment Notebook PC | HP Touchsmart tx2 1119au - Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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tallPete

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#160550 28-Aug-2008 21:01

I've installed IE8 Beta 2 and it renders that website fine on Vista 32, although there are others that I have had trouble with (such as new format Facebook, which switches back to old facebook in IE8 mode, and deosn't render properly in compatibility mode). Cool thing about this release is that it remembers the compatibility mode setting for each website, and doesn't require a restart of IE when switching.

Seems strange that it is one of Microsofts own websites!! Either there is a bug in the 64bit version you are running or maybe the original beta wasn't uninstalled first. It could be a hangover from the original beta writing stuff to the registry that it shouldn't. You could try Tools/Advanced/ and then one of the reset settings options to reset IE back to factory defaults?

Cheers, Pete.

chakkaradeep

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#160555 28-Aug-2008 21:13

tallPete:
Seems strange that it is one of Microsofts own websites!! Either there is a bug in the 64bit version you are running or maybe the original beta wasn't uninstalled first. It could be a hangover from the original beta writing stuff to the registry that it shouldn't. You could try Tools/Advanced/ and then one of the reset settings options to reset IE back to factory defaults?

I didnt have IE beta 1 installed in this laptop.

Tried the option to factory defualt - the problem still prevails.

Have also submitted this in the IE 8 beta newsgroups. Seems strange as its a Microsoft website.

eXDee

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#160559 28-Aug-2008 21:18

I thought about posting why not use Firefox/Opera, however then i remembered there are IE only sites eg windows update, some prefer it/business require it and that IE8 is finally the first release of IE to be standards compliant. Yay

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Hopefully web developers now only have to create on version of a webpage without a bunch of workarounds/hacks.

chakkaradeep

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#160587 28-Aug-2008 23:00

Here is another one:

Visual Search yields good results with Google Search - Picture here

And Live Search - Picture here

hmm..Is something wrong?