Heads Up - IE8 Comaptibility Mode
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So, I started running through my ASP.NET web site with IE 8.0 looking for the inevitable issues that would crop up that did not exist in the previous version. I was running IE8 on a clean client and had my development website and my live website running in separate tabs. To my bewilderment, the site running on my development machine looked totally different than the site running on my webserver. In fact on my dev machine the web site looked the same as it did in IE7. I was stumped...after spending a hour or so checking files and versions and etc. I found this little gem. :wtf: IE 8.0 has a feature called Compatibility Mode which works great as it renders outdate markup to look as it did in IE 7.0. The cute little trick here is that under Tool>Compatibility View Settings, there is an option... Display intranet sites in Compatibility View ...which in MS's infinite wisdom is checked by default and hides the Comatibility view icon on the address bar. So, now you know and you can save yourself from the wasted time I just enjoyed. Regards, Jeff