The Icon Bar: Programming: X-UA-Compatible
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monkeyson2 (17:35 3/7/2009)
tribbles (18:49 3/7/2009)
Jacko (19:01 3/7/2009)
monkeyson2 (19:39 3/7/2009)
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Phil Mellor |
Message #110463, posted by monkeyson2 at 17:35, 3/7/2009 |
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I've got a CMS web site which has a few edit mode bugs in IE8, but is perfectly happy in IE7, Chrome, etc.
Now, I know the correct solution would be to make it work properly in IE8 but I don't have the time to do this - and I have no control over the majority of the HTML, CSS and javascript.
I do, however have the option of adding the X-UA-Compatible meta tag to the edit pages to tell IE to work in IE7 standards mode.
But it doesn't do anything! The developer toolbar indicate that it's still in IE8 Standards mode - if I switch to IE7 Standards using the dev toolbar or backwards compatibility it all starts working.
I've tried both
{meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=IE7" /}
and
{meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" /}
The DOCTYPE is
{!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"}
and I've changed the pointy tag brackets to curly braces to make sure I can post them safely here. I'm not that nuts!
Any ideas why it doesn't work? |
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Jason Tribbeck |
Message #110464, posted by tribbles at 18:49, 3/7/2009, in reply to message #110463 |
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I had to do it on one of our software products - I did it by changing the web server configuration to automatically put it in as a header, rather than as a meta-tag.
I also found that IE8 in compatibility mode wasn't as compatible as IE7 native, but you've already found it's okay for you. |
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David Jackson |
Message #110465, posted by Jacko at 19:01, 3/7/2009, in reply to message #110463 |
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found this on the web http://www.alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype
appears you just need ......"IE=7" |
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Phil Mellor |
Message #110466, posted by monkeyson2 at 19:39, 3/7/2009, in reply to message #110465 |
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found this on the web http://www.alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype
appears you just need ......"IE=7" Marvellous! That works perfectly  |
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