from the "crap Microsoft didn't think about..." department

[acroyear]

So you have a problem in your code with IE-8, you get your users to turn on compatibility mode to see it as if it was IE-7.

good. seems to work.

How do you get your users to go back and turn compatibility mode off once you fix the problem, so you can use newer IE-8 features?

stupid idiots...

Comments

[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

When it breaks again because they have compatibility mode on. Course, if it is an intranet application, you probably could switch compatibility mode off via policy.

[tomble.livejournal.com]

Wait, so once you have changed it, the option to change it back disappears?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

if you as a user change it for a site, you can change it back with a click of the box by the address bar at any time. the trouble is explaining all of that crap to an essentially ignorant user-base.

if the code forces IE-7 interpretation by the meta tag or http header, the user can not force it to use IE-8 mode...though there is a way to force the browser to then see it strictly in IE-8 mode once you make the fix, though it puts the onus back on you to ensure it still works at all in IE-7.

nevermind firefox or safari/chrome in all that...

[slycreations.livejournal.com]

I would love to say that I feel your pain, but my company still forces most of our employees to use IE-6.
Hell will most likely freeze over before I can utilize IE-8 features.