Marco Schuster <marco <at> harddisk.is-a-geek.org> writes:
But why is IE8 falling back to compat-mode at Wikimedia sites?
Microsoft has a blacklist for sites they deem incompatible with IE8, and Wikimedia sites are on that list (see [1]). No idea why, Wikipedia looks pretty much the same in IE7 and (non-compat-mode) IE8.
Any way to force IE8 to standard-"conforming" mode?
Yes, you can put a meta tag into the header:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" >