IE8 (beta 2) Bugs

This are a list of bugs that I reported in the Beta 2 build. Please see the main IE8 bugs page to see a list of bugs that I’ve reported in the current build.

# Name Description
1 100% height of grandchild element of root element not fully honored, when grandchild element is absolutely positioned and establishes the root element as it’s containing block; thus ‘escaping’ the BODY element. Test Case Bug Ticket
2 Generated Content that has been inserted from inline elements (that appear one on top of each other in the whitespace of the document) do not honour anonymous character spaces (generated by visual UAs) between inline boxes Test Case Bug Ticket
3 Dynamic changes to counter-increment?? Test Case
4 Children’s counter does not take into account the scope of the parent’s counter, resulting in incorrect incrementation. This issue goes against the self-nesting nature of counters, as defined in 12.5.1 Test Case Bug Ticket
5 Value of ‘border-color’ is honored even though it precedes ‘border’ shorthand property Test Case Bug Ticket
6 Fixed-positioned descendant which is positioned outside of its parents clipped border-box area, is displayed Although position:fixed; is a subcategory of absolute positioning, the correct behaviour (a hidden child element, in this instance) is observed if the child element is absolutely positioned relative to it’s containing block (position:absolute;), rather than being positioned relative to the viewport (position:fixed;). Test Case Bug Ticket
7 A media attribute that contains a recognised Media Descriptor isn’t truncated before it encounters a succeeding unknown or invalid Media Descriptor See Test Case for detailed description Test Case Bug Ticket
8 Atimport parsing INCOMPLETE
9 Parsing of selectors that succeed an (invalid) end-tag open delimiter within the STYLE element (HTML4 spec violation) Section 6.2 of the HTML 4 spec states >the first occurrence of the character sequence “ NOTE: Only paragraph #5 in the test case relates to this example Test Case Bug Ticket
10 Illegal parsing of a z-index decimal value, instead of an integer Test Case Bug Ticket
11 auto width of CAPTION element does not have any effect on ’shrink-to-fit’ auto width of TABLE element Since the CAPTION element is a descendant of the TABLE element, it should have an influence over the width of the TABLE element. INCOMPLETE
12 Vertical-align using an EM-unit length value This test was adapted from one of Ian Hickson’s Adhoc Test Cases. NOTE: You’ll need to install the Ahem font to view this test case correctly. Test Case