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The company I work for uses IE 7 standards for rendering within our application. A lot of things would break if the people using our software upgraded to IE 8.

Our HTML markup is so ugly :(

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Actually, there's one simple meta tag ("X-UA-Compatible") you can add to the head of your pages that will make IE8 use the IE7-compatible rendering engine:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/readiness...

IE7 obviously isn't perfect (or even good), but it's also nowhere near as bad as IE6 in terms of supporting standards.

You can also add the HTTP header to the response for these pages so you don't even have to touch the markup, just a configuration file on the Web server.

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