Contributor Images don't appear in IE 8

Contributor Images don't appear on the home page in IE 8.

In the contributors block the images don't appear, it looks like the div (class="field-content") isn't be sized automatically correctly and is too narrow.

I added this to "global.styles.css":

.views-field-picture .field-content {
  width: 50px;
}
.message .user-picture {
  width: 40px;
}

To temporarily resolve the issue.