FreeTextBox

FreeTextBox renders as a normal textarea box in IE8... Any work going on to make it work as in IE7?

I saw some reports of different components not rendering properly anymore.  Have you tried using the new meta tag that is supposed to make IE8 render pages the way it used to in previous versions?  Put this in your page <HEADER> tag.  Make sure it's the first meta tag in the header.

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE-EmulateIE7" />

I don't have IE8 beta myself yet so can't test this but it would be interesting to see if it makes a difference.

I have tested both with and without the meta tag but FTB fails in both cases.

John Dyer, the author of FTB, is aware of the issue and is currently working on making FTB compatible with both Google Chrome and IE8.  No timescale information as yet, but I am sure further details will be made available in due course.

I've posted a way to turn it on here (you need the source code to be able to do so):
Steps to turn on IE8 support
(http://freetextbox.com/forums/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=9523#9523)