The point is to avoid this approach whenever it's possible. First, this
backward-compatible mode was originally introduced to allow nonstandard web
sites to not break in newer versions of IE. Second, this compatibility mode
will be sooner or later abandoned by IE (IE10, for example, dropped its
support to conditional comments to basically demonstrate its consistent
standard support). In that vein, you should **not** follow this approach.
Instead, embrace graceful degradation as a more useful way to develop web
sites. This approach is followed by big stars such as Google and Yahoo
(Yahoo originally introduced this idea through a detailed browser support
chart), so why you insist with sticking to tricks and hacks?
Bye :-)
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:05 PM, David Hucklesby huckle...@gmail.comwrote:
On 4/19/13 1:31 AM, AngelPSan wrote:
Hi, anyone knows the definitive solution to make internet explorer web
pages load in standard mode?
Boy, have you opened a can of worms!
Here's what Microsoft[1] has to say (about IE 9) -
Important The new standards support in Internet Explorer 9 requires the
browser to be in Internet Explorer 9 Standards mode (“IE9 mode”). The best
way to do this is to use a standards !DOCTYPE directive and no
X-UA-Compatible meta tag or HTTP header. The !DOCTYPE to invoke IE9 mode is
the following:
!DOCTYPE html
...
Personally, I use the X-UA-Compatible flag no matter what, as IE 8+
displays
a Compatibility mode button if I don't. This button switches IE to the
anything-but-standards mode that emulates IE 7. As it appears next to the
browser's refresh button, so very easily pressed by mistake. :(
The X-UA-Compatible META was introduced in IE 8. Earlier versions use a
valid DOCTYPE to force so-called standards mode. But it must come first on
your page. Leading comments or an XML declaration in front will fail to
enforce standards mode.
There are additional issues if you add lots of class names to the HTML tag,
for example if you use conditional class names or Modernizr. You can read
about those issues here:
http://nicolasgallagher.com/**better-conditional-classnames-**
for-hack-free-css/http://nicolasgallagher.com/better-conditional-classnames-for-hack-free-css/
Definitive solution? I don't know. But this is to the best of my current
knowledge. I do hope it helps.
[1]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-**us/ie/ff468705http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/ff468705
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