Going to IE8 with DOCTYPE HTML 4.01 Transitional any suggestions appeciated.

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Hello, we use in all our pages in the 1st line of our HTML code the:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

We are moving on to the new IE8 and we would like to keep the DOCTYPE unchanged, is there any suggestions/warnings we better be aware of?

I mean like: "Be careful that CSS min-width is not working anymore in IE8 transitional, be careful that it will screw up page in this and that, etc."

Thanks!

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