Marco Schuster <marco <at> harddisk.is-a-geek.org> writes:

> But why is IE8 falling back to compat-mode at Wikimedia sites? 

Microsoft has a blacklist for sites they deem incompatible with IE8, and
Wikimedia sites are on that list (see [1]). No idea why, Wikipedia looks pretty
much the same in IE7 and (non-compat-mode) IE8.

> Any way to force IE8 to standard-"conforming" mode?

Yes, you can put a meta tag into the header:

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

[1] http://ie8blacklist.appspot.com/


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