PIE causing hover effect delay in IE8

[oalberdi]

Version of PIE 1.0.0
PIE.htc is in the root of our website and referenced from css as behavior: url(/PIE.htc);

It all works fine on every browser except on IE8, when you put your mouse onto the element the hover state happens with delay (the background color changes with delay).
Example of the code and css used: http://jsfiddle.net/hLY7V/

[lojjic]

The delay, unfortunately, is necessary. This is because PIE has to listen to mouseover/out events, and IE fires those events before the :hover styles from the CSS are applied to the element.

PIE does add a .pie_hover class to the elements on hover as well, which if you use that in your CSS should allow the hover styles to be applied sooner.