Does IE8 run responsive web sites?

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Does IE8 run responsive web sites?

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We have come across a problem where our responsive web sites are not displaying right on ie8.

Without writing an entirely separate css just for that browser is there an easy fix?
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It's a six year old browser. It gets most things wrong. You can check specific features here: http://caniuse.com/
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As I thought. Thanks. Users is on XP, hence its knackered on there.
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You can get reasonable results if you use a normalize CSS before your CSS. I find that CSS is less a problem that Javascript (e.g. no console, poor json support, etc.).
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IE 1.0 runs responsive websites - it's all a matter of how complex you get.
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That's interesting.

We do it for Desktop and Mobile.
@media screen and (max-width: 767px)
{
}

@media screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 3000px)
{

}
But on IE8 it's utterly ignoring it. It seems to try the first set first, and ignore the second, thus making a web site looks really tiny on screen.
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The link I posted above shows that IE8 does not support media queries. Something like Respond.js may be helpful.
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