Appending a text node as an immediate sibling of a float will cause IE8b2 to lose the document. Kapoof!

For me this is a particular problem on my site Party Ark which uses the jquery library. jquery parses html text into nodes before inserting them. Because my html was like this:
"  <div> ... </div>    " then the whole page disappeared.

UPDATE - the text node itself has to start with white space for the white screen of doom. Here's the click function:

        function addToBody() {
            document.body.appendChild(
                document.createTextNode('    if you can see me you\'re not using IE8b2')
            );
        }
        

You may also want to try out the position:fixed bug report page.

I float left. Click me to crash cause the white screen of death in IE8b2.