www.nickhodge.com » ie7 http://www.nickhodge.com/blog microsoft, munging and on being a mercurial iconoclastic professional geek. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:15:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Fixing nickhodge.com (quickly) for IE8 http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2601 http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2601#comments Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:13:58 +0000 Nick Hodge http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2601 Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 has been released. The night before a big PR thing in Melbourne (Premier of Victoria, etc) and I decided to install it on my demo laptop. Brave, yet safe move.

What about this website?

Not so good. Something is broken somewhere. In the week before TechEd 2008 I don’t have time to completely diagnose and fix the wordpress template. So, sort of like welding it together for a few weeks until things die down — it is time for a simple fix.

How can you tell? See the “broken document” icon on the right of the URL: this indicates that the site has been designed for older browsers.

IE8 Fix

 

There are two potential fixes. One is to click on the broken icon, and Internet Explorer will revert to Internet Explorer 7 mode.

A smarter fix for this web site is a one-line change to my template (in my case, header.php for this template)

<meta http-equiv=“X-UA-Compatible” content=“IE=EmulateIE7” />

 

IE8 Fix

 

Refreshing the site, and magically it renders correctly, and there is no “broken” document icon.

IE8 Fix

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