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Re: IE8 incompatibility issues

From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:59:47 +0100
To: "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>, "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
Cc: "Jon Gunderson" <jongund@uiuc.edu>, "Aaron M Leventhal" <aleventh@us.ibm.com>, "Charles McCathieNevile" <chaals@opera.com>, "Marc Silbey" <marcsil@windows.microsoft.com>, "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@comcast.net>, www-archive@w3.org, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
Message-ID: <op.t7yd1dxiidj3kv@hp-a0a83fcd39d2.oslo.opera.com> 

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:54:05 +0100, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:

> <meta> Switch: Documents without a doctype or with a quirky doctype  
> should force quirks mode in IE8 even if the HTTP header or the meta tag  
> says IE=7 (or 8 or edge etc.), otherwise if authors create pages that  
> use the meta but no doctype or a quirky doctype and only test in IE8,  
> those pages would expect standards mode but get quirks mode in other  
> browsers (including IE7).

It seems that the reverse is also currently true, namely documents with a  
non-quirky doctype can trigger quirks with the meta by specifying IE=5 or  
IE=6. In order to avoid problems, I would kindly suggest to not recognize  
the values 5 and 6, just like 1..4 are not recognized (if you're going to  
keep x-ua-compatible).

    http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!DOCTYPE%20HTML%3E%0D%0A%3Cmeta%20http-equiv%3Dx-ua-compatible%20content%3Die%3D5%3E%0D%0A%3Cscript%3Edocument.write(document.compatMode)%3C%2Fscript%3E

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software
Received on Thursday, 13 March 2008 12:26:45 GMT

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