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With the release of IE8 seemingly imminent, and with many developers still not testing their sites with IE8, the IE team have just posted details of how IE8’s compatibility mode is not necessarily identical to IE7

We strive to make Compatibility View behave as much like IE7 as possible, but we do make exceptions. Many of these exceptions enable improved security and accessibility features immediately, even for sites that have not yet migrated to IE8 Standards Mode.

Read the details at the IE team blog.