I'm trying to setup compatibility mode in one of our web products however I cannot get compatiblity mode to work via a particular server.
To recount what I've done so far:
I've set the the HTTP header X-UA-Compatible in IIS to IE=7
I've set also addded the meta element as the first element in the head element to the master page:
Using fiddler I've checked the HTTP traffic and I can see the header value and the meta element. Using the same browser (different tab) when I point to our staging server the document renders as IE7 brower mode and IE7 document mode. Which is great. Unfortunately when I point to the live server which is configured in the same way as the staging server the document renders as IE8 browser mode and IE7 document mode.
As a result when I check the dev tools the CSS which is being applied to the html element is
" ie ie8 CSS1Compat Win32"
vs
" ie ie7 CSS1Compat Win32"
Has anyone got any suggestions what I might have missed?
Note there is a blank line before DOCTYPE instruction (which is meaningful).
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:b="http://www.backbase.com/2006/btl"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xmlns:e="http://www.backbase.com/2006/xel"
xmlns:c="http://www.backbase.com/2006/command" xmlns:d="http://www.backbase.com/2006/tdl"
xmlns:x="http://woodmac.com/x">
<head><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" /><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /><meta http-equiv="expires" content="-1" /><meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="Backbase/engine/boot.js"></script>
<link href="App_Themes/MANDA/print_style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link href="App_Themes/MANDA/screen_style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /></head>
<body>
Thanks,
Philip
Take a look at this site and see if you missed anything. It may be related to the doctype, but it looks like the meta tags should override that.
What url are you using to access each server? IE8 has an option which is enabled by default which will force "intranet", or single-name, domains to render in compatibility mode regardless of your XUA and other header settings (Tools > Compatibility View Settings > Display intranet sites in compatibility view).
If this setting is enabled and you are accessing one or the other of your staging and prod sites with something like http://servername, then this may be causing them to render differently regardless of your setting.
Recently I was faced with this issue and ended up requiring all servers to be accessed with a domain extension (e.g. http://servername.company.com), and set the XUA header to IE7. Now everything renders in IE7 mode regardless of the server its running on.
Related
It looks like my site has been hacked. I have removed all files form the site (on IIS7) and replaced it with a simple asp file:
<%# Language=VBscript%>
<%
%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
</head><body>
</body>
</HTML>
If the page is called with the HTTPreferer as 'googlebot' a load of spam links are inserted just before the body close tag. Otherwise the page works fine.
I have the site on shared hosing but have access to IIS7 manager for the site with limited control. I cannot see a URL rewrite function or anything that will allow the page to be altered before the data being sent. There are some functions of the IIS7 system I dont have access to as it is a shared server and I am trying to work with my hosting provider to resove the problem, but they also seem to be drawing a blank.
any ideas? its killing my google rankings!
PS is does affect another of my sites on the same hosing system but not all my sites nor a couple of others I tested.
I have an issue with a website not working properly in IE10 (some pages using iframes). In IE10, I can click on the 'Compatibility view' button and everything works fine again.
To avoid users having to do this, I tried to insert the meta tag in the header of the master page (it's a .NET website), and also in the root web.config (in the system.webserver config block). I also tried IE=9, IE-8...
Nothing works. Is the browser not properly interpreting the tag? I know it sees it because when the tag is there, the 'Compatibility view' icon disappears. What am I missing?
Ie 9 – compatibility: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9">
If you want ie 8: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8">
if you want both: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9; IE=8;">
Try
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1,requiresActiveX=true">
Reference: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/v4.1.0/doc/extend.md#internet-explorer
Try adding
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
example:
<%# Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="GeneralLedgerCodeListingCustomForm.aspx.cs" Inherits="xyz.GeneralLedgerCodeListingCustomForm" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<%
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
%>
I'm trying to render a webpage in Explorer as IE8, since IE9 is doing a great mess with CSS and not showing the #font-face.
I read the Microsoft Documentation here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325%28v=vs.85%29.aspx and other related topics like IE9 does not at all care about 'X-UA-Compatible' meta tag and Force IE9 to emulate IE8. Possible? and none resolved my issue, either I am very dumb (witch can be) or I can't find the problem.
The webpage is: karactermania.com/web2012/betty and I'm using the CMS Textpattern to build it.
I tried with:
<!-- Enable IE8 Standards mode -->
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
<!-- Enable IE8 Standards mode -->
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE8" /> (as I found some examples written with and without the "=")
<!--[if IE 9]>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE8" >
<![endif]--> (desperate attempt)
Complete HTML declaration:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="es" xmlns:fb="http://ogp.me/ns/fb#">
<head>
<!-- Enable IE9 Standards mode -->
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE8" />
If anyone can point where the error is and how can I fix it, will earn my eternal gratitude :)
Thanks
I had the same problem as you. My X-UA-Compatible header was ignored. I found the solution in this post
The x-ua-compatible header has to be in the head section, before all other elements except for the title element and other meta elements
I want to know how to instruct Chrome not to use a cached version of a page. I cannot get Google Chrome [15.0.874.106 m] to load the latest version. There was a typo on the page and I've corrected it. Other browsers fetch the corrected page. Chrome, not. Here below is what I have in the header section; should I add anything or change something? Also, the browser is not set up "Under the Hood" to use any sort of DNS-prefetching. Just to be clear, I don't want to clear the cache manually, but want to know how to manipulate Chrome's page-caching policies in a declarative manner. Thanks
P.S. I had this problem once before (see this question) but the circumstances are somewhat different this time, so I don't know what's going on. This page too is being displayed in a frame, but it had a no-cache policy from the get-go.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML LANG="en-US">
<HEAD>
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:11 GMT">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
.
.
.
</HEAD>
I'm using the HTML Validator Addon in Firefox 4 (great tool I might add).
However, I'm not sure the validation is working the way it should. I'm getting an error saying 'Canvas is not recognized'.
My doctype and html tags are set as follows:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
I believe this is supposed to be the HTML5 way for setting doctypes.
Is there something I'm missing?!
Try removing xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" from the <html> element.