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IE 8 Compatibility View allows content designed for older web browsers to still work well in Internet Explorer 8.

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X-UA-Compatible is set to IE=edge, but it still doesn't stop Compatibility Mode

I am quite confused. I should be able to set and IE8 and IE9 should render the page using the latest rendering engine. However, I just tested it, and if Compatibility Mode is turned on…
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JavaScript: Can I detect IE9 if it's in IE7 or IE8 compatibility mode?

I need to know if the browser that's identifying itself via user agent string as being IE7 or IE8 is really those browsers, or whether it's IE9 in 7 or 8 compatibility mode. From what I can see in the user agent string, an IE9 in IE7 compatibility…
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How to forcefully set IE's Compatibility Mode off from the server-side?

In a domain-controlled environment I'm finding that the compatibility mode is triggered on certain clients (winXP/Win7, IE8/IE9) even when we are providing a X-UA tags, a !DOCTYPE definition and "IE=Edge" response headers. These clients have the…
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Force "Internet Explorer 8" browser mode in intranet

There are "Internet Explorer 8", "Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Mode", and IE7 mode in IE8. However, the default setting in IE make all intranet website use "IE8 Compatibility Mode" even I have setted doctype, the meta tag, http header as…
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Force IE9 to emulate IE8. Possible?

Is this possible at all? I tried adding this to the page but it didn't change a thing. UPDATE- I'm trying to do this because our site has some IE9 specific CSS issues, which wouldn't appear in…
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What specific things cause IE8 to trigger compatibility mode?

I've got an app that under some circumstances causes IE8 to popup the compatibility message and reload in compat mode: a problem displaying caused internet explorer to refresh the webpage using compatibility view This is rare, and does not…
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Why is IE failing to show UTF-8 encoded text?

I have a some Chinese characters that I'm trying to display on a Kentico-powered website. This text is copy/pasted into Kenticos FCK editor, and is then saved and appears on the site. In Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, the characters appear exactly…
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Detect IE8 Compatibility Mode

Possible Duplicate: Differentiate IE7 browser and browser in IE7 compatibility mode We have not had time to fully test IE8 with our fairly extensive system. We are also reaching the point at which we can't prohibit the use of IE8. Our users are…
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How to make Internet Explorer 8 to support nth child() CSS element?

I want to give a zebra stripe effect to my table rows. In all other browsers it can be done using CSS nth child element. But i want to do it IE 8 also. SO how can i do it?
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Force IE9 into Quirks mode?

I have a page with an iframe, and the iframe contains code that needs to run in quirks mode (it's Microsoft's Outlook Web Access, so it's not our code that we could fix anyway). IE9 introduced a "feature" that when the parent frame is in IE9…
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What are the differences between IE9’s IE8 emulation and honest-to-God IE8?

I’m running into an issue where some icons aren’t showing up in IE8 on XP, but when I run IE9 on Win 7 with document & browser modes set to IE8, the issue doesn’t present itself. So I’m wondering what the known differences are between IE8 emulation…
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why compatibility mode for intranet sites

I'm a Mac person, web designer, trying to understand "Display intranet sites in compatibility mode" option with IE 11 I have client, an architecture firm, that used to host their OLD website (HTML site I didn't develop) in-house on their Windows…
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noscript tag appears even if javascript is turned on in IE8

ghost noscript tag more info here I am facing exactly this issue, how shall I handle this for Internet Explorer browsers :-( ? Explanation: I have included the following noscript tag in my application's layout
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Text-Shadow: IE8

Alright, so I'm trying to implement text-shadow across various browsers. I have IE6, IE7, FF, Chrome, and Opera all working... but IE8 wont' show any shadows unless it is in 'Compatibility View'. I've looked at a number of 'solutions' via search /…
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IE8 Rendering as IE7 By Default?

I just received a new computer at work, with IE8 set to render all sites as IE7. This was a shock to me. Does anyone know if ALL installations of IE8 default to IE7 rendering? And if so, is there anything a web developer can do to force IE8…
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