With the help of this tutorial, I was able to get IE8 running on my Macbook, which will make troubleshooting cross-browser compatibility issues much easier in the future.

I’m about to embark on what will probably be a two-week initiative to convert Preceden’s timelines over to the HTML5 canvas.  Currently everything except the charts are created by manipulating a lot of DIV elements, but there’s only so much you can do that way. Canvas should provide a lot of flexibility in terms of visualization.