does anyone know how can i force IE 10 to open in IE8 browser mode. Is it possible, Change something in IE settings? Does IE have some kind of a config file what can define it? Or can i make some changes in REGEDIT to force it to open in IE8 mode?
If you want cross-browser testing, take a look here. This offers multiple browser testing without the need to have virtual machines etc.
If your specifically looking for IE, then take a look here.
EDIT: You can look at IE10 on Windows 7 Side-by-Side IE8 for the issue you have.
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Our web browser plugin has worked in all IE versions and still works fine in IE9 and IE10 but in IE11 the plugin is not even recognized and listed as an add-on. It's as if IE11 no longer supports ActiveX.
NOTE: this questions is asked as the developer of the plugin and not the end-user who might need to correct IE settings. So suggestions for how to detect ActiveX or how to adjust a browser settings to allow ActiveX are useless here.
We assume that what we need to do is make adjustments to the ActiveX structure so that IE11 on Windows 8 approves the plugin so that it can be available to the user at their discretion, ie: list it in the Add-on Manager.
A sample project and test page can be downloaded from here - http://addmine.com/temp/EPM_project.zip
Surely there is a workaround but what do we need to change?
As of IE11, add-ons are supported only for IE on the desktop. If you're running the Windows Store experience of IE, then your statement about IE11 not recognizing the plug-in is absolutely correct. This article shows how you can have this experience prompt the user to open the page in the desktop experience of IE, which will support your plugin.
Having said that, it's entirely possible that you do change your plugin to support changes to the Windows 8 security model. Here are a couple of links to get you started:
Supporting enhanced protected mode (Note that this is part 1 of a four-part series)
IEInternals: Understanding Enhanced Protected Mode
IE Blog: Enhanced protected mode
Hope this helps...
-- Lance
Please forgive me if I placed this in the wrong section of Stack Exchange, I will be happy to repost elsewhere, Im just not sure which section to go to.
Why does IE8 display differently in Browser Mode (which is accessible through the IE10 F12 Developer Tools) than in XP Mode?
It seems that the CSS is rendered differently. Does anyone know the details as to why this occurs?
IE8 Browser Mode vs IE8 in XP Mode CSS renders differenty?
Yep, that's a pretty well-documented problem. It may be called compatibility mode, but the fact is, it isn't really all that compatible.
This is why it's generally considered a bad idea to use compatibility mode to do your testing.
Ultimately the only reliable way to test that a site works in IE8 is to actually load it in a real copy of IE8. XP Mode is a good way to do that.
I agree it's more of a hassle than switching the mode in IE10, but unfortunately, that's the way it is.
I'm familiar with the differences in rendering web fonts in different browsers and/or OS. A couple of questions though:
I use a web font (woff) that looks like crap in Chrome but is OK in FF (on Windows 7). The other day I used my office computer from home via remote desktop. I noticed that the font now looked like crap in FF too. It looked much the same as in Chrome at the office. (I didn't test Chrome at home). I know that remote desktop reduces "the graphics" somehow, but not exactly how, and I have no idea how it could effect font rendering. When I came to the office the day after, the rendering in FF was still messed up. I guess the remote desktop session´s changes to "the graphics" was still in effect. I checked with Chrome and now rendering in that browser looks fine, like in FF before!!? So I restarted the computer to get back my usual "graphics settings" but that didn't help. Then I cleared the font cache and restarted again. Now I'm back to crappy Chrome rendering and OK FF rendering.
My questions:
What is happening with "the graphics" in general, and with font rendering in particular, when I connect with remote desktop (setting = 32-bit color depth)? My guess is that whatever changes, it gets both FF and Chrome to use another rendering method than before.
How can the effect still be there after rebooting the computer. Is the "rendering result" somehow stored in the font cache as it seems?? Seems odd.
Thanks for any advice.
Chrome cannot render TrueType fonts with correct anti-aliasing at the moment. WOFF fonts are containers for either OpenType or TrueType, in your case probably TrueType, so you get the crappy rendering. You can either serve an SVG font to Chrome (bigger file size) or use a WOFF based on OpenType.
Apart from that, many other factors influence font rendering, like having the font locally on your system or having ClearType enabled or not (which is not enabled by default through remote desktop).
See here as well.
I had the same issue and searched but found no answers.
Ultimately in my case it was a combination of remote desktop, server 2012 and browser fonts (Roboto in my case).
It was the worst in chrome, ok in firefox, perfect in ie.
The cause was the missing feature 'desktop experience' in server 2012.
To add this feature to server 2012:
Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager. In Server Manager, click Features, and then in the Server Manager details pane, under Features Summary, click Add features. In the Features list, select Desktop Experience, and then click Install.
That completely fixed the issue for me in all browsers/fonts, hope it helps someone else out there.
I'm having troubles testing a StageVideo file locally. The HTML file that contains the swf loads perfectly in Chrome & FireFox, but when I go to open it in Internet Explorer 9 nothing happens (it just shows a white screen).
I've added the permissions for the location to the 'Global Security Settings' tab of the Flash settings manager (on the Macromedia website). I've also checked in the IE9 settings to make sure that it allows GPU rendering.
Has anyone encountered anything similar or have any suggestions as to why it might be blocked in IE9?
Thanks in advance.
My gut feeling is that you don't have the latest Flash Player for IE, but do have it for Chrome/FF since they're 2 different versions. The swf probably doesn't even load up because of the Flash Player requirement.
I have a VB6 application using the WebBrowser control. It displays HTML pages from a local folder (using file:// URI scheme). Some of those pages contain embedded JavaScript code.
It all works well for the vast majority of users, but occasionally we get reports from people who have problems with everything JavaScript-related in the pages. Basically, it looks like they have scripting disabled inside the WebBrowser control.
The problem is: I cannot even reproduce the problem. I was trying to fiddle with various settings in IE security (IE8 on Win XP Pro SP3), disabling various scripting-related options for different zones (which zone includes local file system, by the way?), - I'm always having JavaScript running well in my tests.
Does anybody have any idea of what may be going wrong?
Thanks
I think I know why this is happening, it's because the IE version the WebBrowser control renders under is IE 7.0 in most, and if they are using a browser older than IE 7, it will render under IE 4.0 (seriously). They do this for backwards compatibility. So if some of your users have IE 6, their default IE rendering engine will be IE 4.0. Of course, since you are probably using IE 9, yors would be IE 7 engine.
You can change the engine, if this is what you want to do, to the current engine (ie: to the current version of internet explorer installed on the users system).
Also, I'd like you to go to http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ on your IE browser, and then through the hosted WebBrowser control; you'll see the difference.
Also, ask your problemed users to go to http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ through their hosted WebBrowser control if they can, and note the results, if they are running pre-IE-7 then most likely their hosted webbrowser control will show IE 4.0. This is almost certainly the reason for your problem.