IE8 Rendering

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2/23/2009 7:38:40 AM
David Allen
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IE8 Rendering

Hello,

As you're probably already aware, most of the skins for mojoPortal do not render very well under IE8 but work perfectly fine if you run IE8 in compatibility mode for IE7.

Is there a header file of some kind that I can place the line below into to force the pages to run in IE7 compatibility mode?

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />

Thanks.

2/23/2009 7:54:45 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: IE8 Rendering

Hi David,

Yes, you could put that in the layout.master file in the <head> section.

To be honest I am not yet testing IE 8, when it comes out as official I will begin testing. To me this sounds like another IE frustration, why must every new version of IE not be able to render standards compiant xhtml correctly? I think they continue to make bad decisions with IE. for Firefox, Safari, Chrome, things render consitently with common css and rarely see breakage accross releases. IE always needs some IE specific supplemental css to make it look right and creates new work for designers every release. Very frustrating...

Chrome has become my browser of choice though I still use Firefox with the NoScript plugin for safe surfing dangerous sites like MySpace.

Best,

Joe

2/23/2009 8:05:48 AM
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Re: IE8 Rendering

Fully agree, very frustrating...  Many of the people who will be visiting my site will be MS teccies so they will be running IE8 Beta/RC (whatever it is now) so just wanted to put a quick fix in for them. :-)  Thanks again.

2/23/2009 8:16:04 AM
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Re: IE8 Rendering

I just tested this site using the IE 8 included in Windows 7 beta and it seems fine but maybe different in the latest IE 8 bits.

I tested the demo site as well trying different skins and most looked ok but a few had some minor issues.

Once the final release comes out I will test and add that meta tag as needed to see if it can fix any issues.

Best,

Joe 

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