Default project breaks in IE8 when in standards mode

[janie...@gmail.com]

Hi All,

I'm trying to track down an issue with ImageBundles that I'm having in
IE8. This email is not about that issue - but there will probably be
one coming soon about it. This email is about another issue that I've
discovered while trying to debug my issue. Here's what I did.

I used the applicationCreator to create a new project. It created a
default project that shows a GWT toolkit with a button that says
"Click Me", and if you click the button you get a dialog box. So far
so good. I put my ImageBundles into the dialog box and started testing
in IE8. The ImageBundles seemed to be working fine, unlike in my
project.

The only difference I could find was that I am using the strict
DOCTYPE in my project, whereas the app created by GWT is using a
quirks-mode doctype. So, I changed the doctype for the sample project
to match my own. Now when I click the button, instead of getting a
dialog box I get a javascript error. On further testing with the IE8
developer tools, I've noticed that the error happens in IE8 standards
mode, but not in IE7 standards mode or in quirks mode. I removed all
my custom code from the generated project, changing only the DOCTYPE
definition, and find that the error still happens. I've found that
the error happens whether the doctype is "strict" or "transitional".

Is this a known bug?

Janie