force ie10 in compatibility mode

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Is there any way to force IE10 to render the website in compatibility mode using some meta tag ? Thanks.

Posted 11-Mar-13 7:06am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Mar-13 13:08pm

It's hard to say if this is a good idea or not. Web pages are not supposed to be contaminated with IE-specific content...
—SA

[no name] 11-Mar-13 13:12pm

I understand but our clients only use IE so that won't be an issue.

Marco Bertschi 11-Mar-13 14:34pm

Maybe it will be. The problem is not the IE as a browser, it is the compability mode. You'd better update the stuff that it is good formatted in the normal IE mode.

[no name] 11-Mar-13 14:52pm

Thanks for the reply. I am looking into that option now as it seems that as a developer you don't have control over compatibility view and it is handled by a compatibility view list by Microsoft.

Marco Bertschi 11-Mar-13 15:03pm

Yeah - And even the compability view is changed with every version of internet explorer.
Therefore it is the best to keep your app up to date with the current and the last two versions of IE (I assume none of your clients is using IE 6, 7 or older? If they'd do you may want to point out the hazard for their IT infrastructure this might cause).

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Mar-13 18:59pm

Agree.
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Mar-13 18:59pm

Who can force anyone to use only IE? No, it will be an issue...
—SA

Marco Bertschi 12-Mar-13 2:19am

It is IMO only an issue when you force your customer to use the compa mode of IE. In addition the maintainability of the aapp goes below zero when explicitly working with the compa mode (which is just a workaround for above stated situations).
If the customer comes and says "You don't need to make it browser independent, we use IE anyways" (Which is actually the case in my current comapany) it is just a legitimate use case. Off course - a customer will pay more if he suddenly wants to have FF or Chrome enabled for the app - But even then it is another use case.

-- MB

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Mar-13 2:36am

It is not a legitimate case. Here, there is no such thing as customer. A person talking to you is some representative who usually have no idea what customers really want. Do you want to make evil even to one customer? Fortunately, this case is relatively easy: tolerance to different incompatibilities is achieved through the simplicity of design (I don't say the simplicity is easy though).
—SA

[no name] 12-Mar-13 16:08pm

Actually its the same case in our company as customer don't want to pay for FF , Chrome compatibility but completely agree that there is no excuse for using compatibility mode though.

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Marco Bertschi · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-11T09:05:00

As a conclusion of the above posted comments:

The problem is not the IE as a browser, it is the compability mode. You'd better update the stuff that it is good formatted in the normal IE view.
Even the compability view is changed with every version of internet explorer. Therefore it is the best to keep your app up to date with the current and the last two versions of IE (I assume none of your clients is using IE 6, 7 or older? If they'd do you may want to point out the hazard for their IT infrastructure this might cause).
The compability view is just a tool from MS to keep web sites which were created by lazy web-devs and have not received an update for a few years alive.
If you are changing something on your website look that it will run without the compability mode - it will extend the life span of your app.

cheers,
Marco Bertschi