I am sending this out to web professionals so they may be able to avoid
wasting several hours, if not days, on certain IE issues related to their
"upgraded" versions of IE.

I am using a library called WZ_Tooltip (
http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm) to handle the need for some
custom tooltips on an application I write.  This application allows you to
customize your tooltips, using embedded HTML, etc.  Just recently, one of my
co-workers was testing out our application with Winblows 7 and IE8, when she
realized that these tooltips are not appearing.  I have a previous version
of IE8 that I test with XP (8.0.6001.18702) and it works fine.  I cannot
recall for sure what her version is; but I recall that it is later.

Anyhow, this was all very troubling, because many of our clients are likely
to be installing 7 on their future machines.  Well, there is a workaround
that makes it so you don't have to worry about all of the things that
micro$oft breaks (until they break this, i suppose).  Just put the following
META tag in your <head></head>

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

It works great!  I'm glad some engineers at Micro$oft had a bit of foresight
into how their products tend to DEvolve as time progresses.

~chris
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