Ok – that’s a bit unfair – I do like IE8 but the amount of sites that are broken until you switch compatibility on is quite startling!
Developers don’t need to do much to fix it, just add the following header to force IE8 to enter IE7 compatible mode automatically (or change your site to be IE8 compatible of course ;-)
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=EmulateIE7″ />
Note too that in the dialog above Microsoft are creating an updated list of sites that need compatibility mode, so perhaps we won’t need to be so drastic in displaying everything in compat mode. In fact it’s actually quite a bad idea, because IE8 is standards compliant where-as IE7 isn’t (so much), and so IE 8 is the way forward.
For a deeper understanding read here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/08/27/introducing-compatibility-view.aspx
Cheers
Ian
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posted @ Thursday, February 05, 2009 3:38 PM