After a long debugging session (using old school alerts to pinpoint what was failing where), this seemingly innocous line of dom manipulation was the culprit: document.getElementById(“literal”+varValue).style.display = “none”; There was no error here, and the element was apparently found (ie, this is not a garden variety null pointer). This is a large scale app, and … Read more
You can use the document compatibility mode to do this, which is what you were trying.. However, thing to note is: It must appear in the Web page’s header (the HEAD section) before all other elements, except for the title element and other meta elements Hope that was the issue.. Also, The X-UA-compatible header is … Read more
Seem that MSFT has not consider a large intranet environment that we have many different web application running inside. There is no way to bypass the IE8 setting, according to somewhere I read on MSDN forum. So, I will have to beg my system administrators to put some new group policies to change “Compatibility View” … Read more
I found problems with the two common ways of doing this: Doing this with custom headers (<customHeaders>) in web.config allows different deployments of the same application to have this set differently. I see this as one more thing that can go wrong, so I think it’s better if the application specifies this in code. Also, … Read more
Actually the user agent string is different for IE9 when being run in IE7 compatibility mode, so this would be one of the best ways to distinguish between different IE versions. Introducing IE9’s User Agent String: Similar to IE8, IE9’s Compatibility View will map to IE7 Standards Mode, and IE9’s UA string when in Compatibility … Read more
If you need to override IE’s Compatibility View Settings for intranet sites you can do so in the web.config (IIS7) or through the custom HTTP headers in the web site’s properties (IIS6) and set X-UA-Compatible there. The meta tag doesn’t override IE’s intranet setting in Compatibility View Settings, but if you set it at the … Read more