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Same reply here as below: "Sorry, that's not an excuse. IE 8 comes with a "compatibility mode" feature where any site can choose to use the IE 6 rendering engin

Same reply here as below: "Sorry, that's not an excuse. IE 8 comes with a "compatibility mode" feature where any site can choose to use the IE 6 rendering engine by setting headers or meta tags appropriately."

eli 17y ago
Nope.. that compatibility mode is for IE7, not IE6. (And my understanding is that it's not even a perfect emulation of IE7.) Microsoft's official recommendation for developers is to install IE6 in a VM if you need to test compatibility. It's that bad.
- 100k 17y ago
  Speaking of which, do you know where I can find IE 6 so I can install it in a VM and test our site? MultipleIE doesn't work on Windows 7, which is what I'm using.
  - eli 17y ago
    Dunno about Win7 compatibility, but this is the official VPC image: http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21e... Personally, I'd probably just use a VMWare image of XP or Win98 and download IE6 from here http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1E1550CB-5E5D-48F5-B02B-20B602228DE6&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1E1...
- drusenko 17y ago
  Hmm, you're right. Somehow that didn't make it into the final release. What a shame. Either way, our perspective is still that the more people that complain about IE 6, the more pressure IT departments will have to upgrade their systems. Starting with Firefox for a modern browsing experience wouldn't be a bad idea :)
  - jodrellblank 17y ago
    And an antediluvian management experience. Official MSIs with transforms and group policy templates for configuration please. (e.g. group policy configure location and size of cache, proxy settings, location of profile folder, restrictions on plugin installation, items to add to favourites, home page configuration, default plugins to install, disable update checking if they wont have rights to install them, etc).
Quiark 17y ago
Some compatibility problems don't regard HTML, so this compatibility mode is irrelevant - for instance in COM apps using the IE browser control, upgrades to IE7/8 are known to cause problems.

eli 17y ago

Nope.. that compatibility mode is for IE7, not IE6. (And my understanding is that it's not even a perfect emulation of IE7.) Microsoft's official recommendation for developers is to install IE6 in a VM if you need to test compatibility. It's that bad.

100k 17y ago
Speaking of which, do you know where I can find IE 6 so I can install it in a VM and test our site? MultipleIE doesn't work on Windows 7, which is what I'm using.
- eli 17y ago
  Dunno about Win7 compatibility, but this is the official VPC image: http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21e... Personally, I'd probably just use a VMWare image of XP or Win98 and download IE6 from here http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1E1550CB-5E5D-48F5-B02B-20B602228DE6&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1E1...
drusenko 17y ago
Hmm, you're right. Somehow that didn't make it into the final release. What a shame. Either way, our perspective is still that the more people that complain about IE 6, the more pressure IT departments will have to upgrade their systems. Starting with Firefox for a modern browsing experience wouldn't be a bad idea :)
- jodrellblank 17y ago
  And an antediluvian management experience. Official MSIs with transforms and group policy templates for configuration please. (e.g. group policy configure location and size of cache, proxy settings, location of profile folder, restrictions on plugin installation, items to add to favourites, home page configuration, default plugins to install, disable update checking if they wont have rights to install them, etc).

Quiark 17y ago

Some compatibility problems don't regard HTML, so this compatibility mode is irrelevant - for instance in COM apps using the IE browser control, upgrades to IE7/8 are known to cause problems.