I am a non-developer without website tools or special design downloads. I run both IE 8 and Chrome and I can definately confirm this is not exclusively a developer issue. This problem exists with a regular end user running native IE 8, as this is exactly what I am. I can view my site in Google Chrome without issue.
In IE 8 neither my site or the Hueman Demo site will load without creating a blank white page. I manually switched my browser to compatibility mode and some of the page loaded but not all of it. I did try switching my font to Ariel and this still did not work.
I really like this theme and some of my target audience for my website will likely have IE 8 as well. The unfortunate reality is many people and businesses are still running XP or running on an older machine that cannot install IE 9. I hope that a future update will correct this incompatibility issue with IE 8 because I do love the theme and wish to keep it.