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Actually, this is something I've been curious about for awhile: I know "modern IE" comes with developer tools that allow you to switch IE versions, and essentia

Actually, this is something I've been curious about for awhile: I know "modern IE" comes with developer tools that allow you to switch IE versions, and essentially look at the site at hand as if you were using IE8 or IE7, all the way down to IE6. From my understanding, a website can manually trigger this switch by using a special <meta> tag. Can't these legacy systems that only work in IE6 simply use the appropriate <meta> tag and have things work? What are the differences between using straight up IE6 and the IE6 rendering engine in IE8?

cdjk 14y ago
Ha! It's a nice thought, but the various compatibility modes are not actually identical to the real versions of the browsers. Close, yes, but there are bugs/features that only show up in the real versions.
- dave5104 14y ago
  Ah, well that sucks. :P