I'm not sure if this is a bug, or if I just forgot to do something for backward compability (the documentation only mentions IE6 and IE7), but in Internet Explorer 8 the site is shown in a single-column layout, just like on a mobile browser or a narrow window in other browsers.

Tested with this fresh install using drush:

drush site-install --db-url=sqlite:.htdata.sqlite --site-name=zen-ie8 -y
drush dl zen
drush en zen -y
drush zen "zen-ie8" zen_ie8 --description="Zen Theme for zen-ie8" --without-rtl
drush en zen_ie8 -y
drush vset theme_default zen_ie8

With an actual Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9 in IE8-mode.

Comments

jtwalters’s picture

According to #1539682: Turn off Respond.js by default, use .lt-ie9 rules for IE8 layouts you need to have on CSS aggregation for Respond.js to work. I can confirm that this is required—I just tested it out in IE8 and the responsiveness works with $conf['preprocess_css'] = true;

MentalFS’s picture

Status: Active » Fixed

Thank you, I'm adding drush vset preprocess_css 1 to my script.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.