As far as I know, IE 8 does default to quirks mode unless you specify the strict doctype. Seems reasonable to me. If you have an intranet site that depends on

As far as I know, IE 8 does default to quirks mode unless you specify the strict doctype. Seems reasonable to me. If you have an intranet site that depends on the way IE 7 works, I think the simple answer is not to deploy IE 8 in your corporation until the Intranet site works with it.