I am working on fixing a website that doesn't work in the new release of IE8. After a bit I found out that you can force IE8 to render as IE7 with the following meta tag:

<!--
  Meta tag for IE8 so that it always displays the site in IE7 Compatibility mode
 -->
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

I have found that although the page loads fine when you specify this meta-tag; However, when you click or press the refresh button after the initial load of the page, the page renders completely wrong (see bellow):

This really seems like an IE8 bug to me, as I've never seen any other browser render inconstantly on a page refresh.

As anyone else noticed this?

Update!

This was cause by having CompanionJS installed in IE8.