Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 8.0  is just downright pitiful…  To the extreme.  After spending so much time “improving” IE8 to make it more standards compliant, it failed miserably.

Screenshot (in native IE 8 mode)

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So I figured I’d try the IE 8 compatibility mode to see if it would fair any better…

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Actually, quite a bit worse…

On the other hand, Safari 4 did perfect.  Granted, it is a beta, but a very functional one.  Firefox (3.0.7), Opera (9.64) and Chrome got up into the 70’s and 80’s, but still did not get it.  At least they’re trying.  Here are the screen shots for the 4 other aforementioned browsers.

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