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Let's hope I didn't need that

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Through a complete failure to uncheck a box, I've managed to install Internet Exploder 8 on the home pc. Hopefully any new web work isn't going to require intense scrutiny to make sure it works with IE7.

Oh well, my server has IE7 on it, so that hopefully will suffice.

posted @ 6/8/2009 10:35:40 AM

Comments

Justin Buist says:

on 6/8/2009 11:20:34 AM

You can force IE 8 to render like IE 7 with just a simple META tag in your HTML. Just had to do this for an existing client that noticed their site didn't work at all with IE 8.

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />

Just stick that in the HEAD section.

Robb Allen says:

on 6/8/2009 11:22:28 AM

Also, thanks to my contacts at Microsoft, I've found Superpreview

That should work just peachy.

Ian Argent says:

on 6/8/2009 1:14:57 PM

Also, IE8 claims to have a compatibility mode

Peter says:

on 6/8/2009 1:46:02 PM

I had IE8 on my tower for about 12 hours, then I tore it out and killed it with fire.

It installed automatically on the laptop, and I'm getting random and capricious errors claiming that the web pages I visit daily have sudden Death To Airliners Full Of Children errors, and cannot load.

Thanks again M$, for fixing something that wasn't (very) broken.

Linoge says:

on 6/8/2009 5:12:12 PM

I have been very carefully unchecking that box every time the option presents itself... Guess I have been doing the right thing :).

Ian Argent says:

on 6/8/2009 5:14:29 PM

I've been having a pretty decent time with IE8; all things considered

hecate says:

on 6/8/2009 6:39:18 PM

Ditto what Peter did, only I couldn't even stand it for 12 hours.

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