It’s bad practice to use this as a ‘set it and forget it’ solution. The plain fact is that they’re *not* the same, and you need to test in both if you’re using this.
Because otherwise your code has to support “another” browser version that has different behavior.
Because people write hacks to work around issues in the way older browsers work. Then IE 8 comes along and their hack doesn’t work anymore (because IE 8 does things better now)
It’s a nice easy method of ensuring that your code works on IE 8 also without modification. It’s easier to add this meta than creating a lot of changes and testing for another browser. Granted that it’s not ideal.
This was a clever move from MS in my opinion… It will make the transition far easier for developers.
It’s bad practice to use this as a ‘set it and forget it’ solution. The plain fact is that they’re *not* the same, and you need to test in both if you’re using this.
Here is a microsoft Resource that details the differences between IE 8 Compatibility mode and IE7 :
Site Compatibility and IE8
I don’t get why anyone would want to change IE8’s pretty decent CSS rendering to a crappy IE7 one..?
Yea i agree y do u want to go back to the older versions of IE… ??
Because otherwise your code has to support “another” browser version that has different behavior.
Because people write hacks to work around issues in the way older browsers work. Then IE 8 comes along and their hack doesn’t work anymore (because IE 8 does things better now)
It’s a nice easy method of ensuring that your code works on IE 8 also without modification. It’s easier to add this meta than creating a lot of changes and testing for another browser. Granted that it’s not ideal.
This was a clever move from MS in my opinion… It will make the transition far easier for developers.
Use for the newest IE
your site has eaten my comment …
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=edge” />
I want to Forcing IE 7 to Behave Like IE 8. is there any way to do it kindly share.
Thats Good to know…but is this also for the IE 10 or the latest version of Internet Explorer??