So I am having problems getting IE8 to not default to IE7 document mode, as our intranet is set up.
I am using IE dev tools to set plus a little bit of js to check what the browser is reporting the document mode to be.
I won't be able to change any settings other than what markup I can give. In otherwords I'm not an admin, the only control I have is within the browser.
I have tried:
<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=8">
But this does not change how the document mode is reported, it still reported as IE7.
JS Fiddle