IE8 non-compatibility mode, image with max-width and height:auto

Question

I have an image with this markup

And I am using CSS to downsize it to 600

Answer 1

Wow, saved me a lot of time there!

i had a similar problem with an image in position: absolute where width was magically taking max-width value. Its weird because it doesn't do that when the image wasn't in position: absolute.

width: auto; 
max-width: 200px; 
height: auto; 
max-height: 200px;

works great in IE8!