My 2 c€nts.
...and this patch could also address issue 2815 http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=2815 (and do not forget issue 2938: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=2938 ) http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/29803/diff/1/9 File user/src/com/google/gwt/user/UserAgent.gwt.xml (right): http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/29803/diff/1/9#newcode38 Line 38: if (v >= 8000) { I believe "ie8" here means "X-UA-Compatibility: IE=8", so detecting the version from the navigator.userAgent is probably not enough [1], and document.documentMode should be used instead [2], otherwise the "ie8" implementation would have to do a quirks-vs-standards-vs-super-standards-mode-detection, which would make the "ie6" impl quite useless. [1] Mike Ormond reports that a document can be displayed in IE=5 or IE=7 mode while the UA is still reported as MSIE 8.0 http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2008/09/25/ie-8-compatibility-meta-tags-http-headers-user-agent-strings-etc-etc.aspx [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325(VS.85).aspx#GetMode http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/29803 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
