Joel Spolsky has an entertaining and thought provoking read on why IE8 renders Google maps and live maps so poorly. Actually it is much more than that and Joel does a great job of explaining the battle between having IE8 default to the new "standard" rendering model, or to the old IE7 one. He concludes:
You see? No right answer. As usual, the idealists are 100% right in principle and, as usual, the pragmatists are right in practice. The flames will continue for years. This debate precisely splits the world in two. If you have a way to buy stock in...