<p dir="auto">reproducible in the examples on: <a href="http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/" rel="nofollow">http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/</a></p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/9f21e7211b86412b139731306d8b3ba3487d3cb1e382b2246bd593fe65ca9e2f/68747470733a2f2f662e636c6f75642e6769746875622e636f6d2f6173736574732f3331313935382f3838383438372f36646565313432302d666130652d313165322d383134662d3832366563323463643165632e706e67"><img src="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/9f21e7211b86412b139731306d8b3ba3487d3cb1e382b2246bd593fe65ca9e2f/68747470733a2f2f662e636c6f75642e6769746875622e636f6d2f6173736574732f3331313935382f3838383438372f36646565313432302d666130652d313165322d383134662d3832366563323463643165632e706e67" alt="screen shot 2013-07-31 at 2 24 11 pm" data-canonical-src="https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/311958/888487/6dee1420-fa0e-11e2-814f-826ec24cd1ec.png" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
<p dir="auto">With 3.0.0-RC1 popovers work, but for top/bottom they're confusingly out of alignment with IE8 (and IE8 engine mode on IE9).</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#popovers-examples" rel="nofollow">http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#popovers-examples</a></p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/acf5f49e6bd1982788076f003f9110a5b37e5ee79809bcbe8cfb73e8ee8e59ae/68747470733a2f2f662e636c6f75642e6769746875622e636f6d2f6173736574732f3433373834352f3838333835302f64366563646533612d663939612d313165322d383136312d3937396163643833646664312e706e67"><img src="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/acf5f49e6bd1982788076f003f9110a5b37e5ee79809bcbe8cfb73e8ee8e59ae/68747470733a2f2f662e636c6f75642e6769746875622e636f6d2f6173736574732f3433373834352f3838333835302f64366563646533612d663939612d313165322d383136312d3937396163643833646664312e706e67" alt="screenshot from 2013-07-31 14 34 53" data-canonical-src="https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/437845/883850/d6ecde3a-f99a-11e2-8161-979acd83dfd1.png" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
<p dir="auto">Rendering is fine with IE9.</p>