Damndest thing: I preview a page in IE 8 XP via Parallels and it's
just fine:

http://fish.washington.edu/undergraduates/ugrecruit/index1.html

My client has IE 8 Vista (native Win box). Hers looks totally mangled.

WTF? Is it a Vista vs XP thing? Or do any of you running Parallels
find your IEs don't display the same as same builds on a native
Windows install? I really need to narrow this down, but I can't afford
to set up three different Win boxes to accommodate IE 6, 7 and 8.
Aaarrrgh!

Also, have any of you used the Adobe browser lab (https://browserlab.adobe.com/index.html)?
If so, do you consider it reliable? I note that their IE 8 renders
the above page fine, but IE 6 and 7 don't (looks more like my client's
IE 8 rendering).

Based on the Adobe site, I have to conclude there are genuine issues
with the CSS, but I have to ask...

Do you ever reach a point where you tell the client that it has to be
an issue with their local browser install? And if so, how do you
arrive at this decision? I'm not sure how many more IE 8 installs I
feel it necessary to check before I tell the client to @#ck off.

The dizzying inconsistency of supposedly-same browsers across
different environments is going to kill me, I think.

Marcus Duke

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