I'm using Sharepoint Foundation Server 2013. Oslo masterpage. My site homepage uses Promoted Links app. My understanding is IE8 is supported.
All works correctly on every browser I have tried except for IE8 (ver 8.0.6001) which is our intranet browser and I can't change this.
With IE8 there is no grey background to the text in the promoted link webpart so it is difficult to read the white text.
I have confirmed DocType set and <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8,9,10" />
document.write(document.documentMode) gives 8 so I don't believe IE8 is in compatibility mode.
Annoyingly as the page is rendering the grey background is present then it disappears as the page finishes loading.
It also affects the blue top bar.
Using IE10 in developer mode if I set Browser mode to IE8 this causes the problem but if I change document mode from 'Standards Mode' to 'Internet Explorer 8 Standards' it fixes it again. I cant find a way of coding the document mode to 'IE8 standards' as opposed to just 'standards'.
Is there any way to fix this or is it a lost cause?