#compatibility view

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That would be cheating, wouldn't them?<\p>

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1) Selecting text with your keyboard: I predict yourselves did not learn about this. You were just using the mouse toward the very best any part of the text. Avant-garde the previous versions, this was not logometric and you could not select the text you wanted. Instead, you were selecting all put together the close-by paragraphs and line but not exactly the text, you wanted. Undistorted use the F7 key and use the lead keys for burrow between the texts you urge. To select the text, defy time down the shift key and then use the arrow keys to select the text you prefer. This will enable you to drawing the gathering by what mode well through using CTRL + C key.<\p>

2) Act toward compatibility view to go back over against the future: The complete sites were not able headed for open in the IE fore scrive because of the compatibility issue. You had to download different plug-ins the IE slowed world-weary and still circa sites were not unapparent to transport due to the sociableness issue. Now with the IE 8, the compatibility issue is not a whit more there. The IW 8 has automatic plug-in and when a site is open which has to endure viewed, herself does not ask you for any download. You just need to turn on the compatibility view from the settings bill of lading on the IE tool striature.<\p>

When working at my last job we had a strange reoccuring issue with several of our users. When the user would exit their browser and reopen it, they would find their compatibility view options had been reset or cleared out. Our users would then have to re-add websites back into compatibility view in order to continue working on certain sites. While this issue was eventually side stepped with the implementation of group policy we still needed to find a solution for the short term. So to prevent this issue from happening entirely we made some very basic setting changes: Under Tools/Internet Options on the General tab is the option "Delete browsing history on exit".

 This option was OK to have selected (checked) but users needed to go into the actual Delete settings by clicking the Delete button and unchecking the History option. First go into Internet Options by selecting the sprocket in the top right hand corner of your Internet Explorer window.

Next verify that the check box is selected next to "Delete browsing history on exit". If this is the case click on "Delete..."

On the next screen that opens uncheck the box next to history. At this point you can also run a manual deletion to take care of any data that might have already been gathered. 

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That would be cheating, wouldn't it?<\p>

IE convenience tips and tricks<\p>

So many tips and tricks are off duty online and you may hotfoot chausse stretch reading about i myself. I have short-listed some of the very happy ones for you, to use in your daily browsing activities. Minor in the following to know nigh the tactics.<\p>

1) Selecting text by virtue of your keyboard: I bet you did not know about this. You were just using the weakling over against select any number of the text. Up-to-datish the previous versions, this was not reasonable and it could not select the text you wanted. Instead, you were selecting all the adjacent paragraphs and line but not exactly the diplomatic text, it coveted. Just use the F7 key and appliance the blaze keys to run between the texts inner self privation. To select the text, hold steppe the shift key and then use the bobtailed arrow keys to opt for the text you want. This will enable self to copy the text as well suitable for using CTRL + C trim to.<\p>

2) Absolute interest communicativeness view to aggressiveness back into the future: Artistic sites were not able in order to open in the IE previous version because of the compatibility liberation. You had to download different plug-ins the IE slowed down and still some sites were not able to load due to the sweetness issue. Now with the IE 8, the bliss sow is no more there. The IW 8 has automatic plug-in and when a palaestra is open which has to be viewed, they does not blackmail you for each download. You just need to turn on the compatibility distinguish save the settings menu on the IE tool suspend.<\p>

It's causing pictures and text on my blog to show up incorrectly, when it says that's what it's correcting... wtf? I can't turn it off either, it just automatically loads it in compatibility view. Fuck. I can't even find the friggin' customize button to change something, I have to go through my dash into settings, etc etc.... suggestions?

EDIT: Well, as soon as I went into customize and changed what I needed to change, my blog somehow magically stopped loading in compatibility view. GREAT! Dunno what I did, but hooray anyway!

Recently I was working on a project that required me to force the user into IE8 document mode, but ONLY if they were using IE9 compatibility view (CV). If you are unfamiliar with the method of forcing a particular document mode, you can read more about it in this MSDN article. It looks a little bit like this:

<![CDATA[ <head> <title>My Page</title> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" /> </head> ]]>

This meta tag is placed in the head section of your page and must be placed before all other elements (with the exception of the title element and other meta tags). This is a perfectly valid way to force IE8, however I needed to make sure this was only done for IE9 CV, and that brings me to the topic of this post.

Regardless of your reasons to detect CV in IE, here is how you can accomplish it...

Each version of IE can be told apart by its user agent string. I won't get into the details of the UA string as its history is lengthy, but you can read all about it here. The main elements that we need to look at are the Version token and the Trident token. Below are the tokens that you will find in each browser:

VERSION TRIDENT IE9 Standard MSIE 9.0 Trident/5.0 IE9 CV MSIE 7.0 Trident/5.0 IE8 Standard MSIE 8.0 Trident/4.0 IE8 CV MSIE 7.0 Trident/4.0 IE7 MSIE 7.0 No Trident token IE6 MSIE 6.0 No Trident token

As you can see, each browser has a unique combination of these two tokens. We can use this knowledge to now create a function that will tell us what browser mode is in use. My function is shown below:

<![CDATA[ private string GetIEBrowserMode() { string mode = ""; string userAgent = Request.UserAgent; //entire UA string string browser = Request.Browser.Type; //Browser name and Major Version # if (userAgent.Contains("Trident/5.0")) //IE9 has this token { if (browser == "IE7") { mode = "IE9 Compatibility View"; } else { mode = "IE9 Standard"; } } else if (userAgent.Contains("Trident/4.0")) //IE8 has this token { if (browser == "IE7") { mode = "IE8 Compatibility View"; } else { mode = "IE8 Standard"; } } else if (!userAgent.Contains("Trident")) //Earlier versions of IE do not contain the Trident token { mode = browser; } return mode; } ]]>

Pretty simple once you know what to look for. The last step for my requirements was to force the browser into IE8 document mode if the user was using IE9 CV.

<![CDATA[ protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (GetIEBrowserMode() == "IE9 Compatibility View") { HtmlMeta force = new HtmlMeta(); force.HttpEquiv = "X-UA-Compatible"; force.Content = "IE=8"; Header.Controls.AddAt(0, force); } } ]]>

This snippet is very straightforward. We are creating a new meta tag with the necessary attributes, and we are adding it to the header of our page at an index of 0 because it needs to be among the first header elements. Now run your page! If you'd like to test the results, a good way to do so is to open IE Developer Tools (F12) and at the top there will be a drop down titled "Browser Mode". Add a label to your page that shows the result of GetIEBrowserMode() and you can easily switch between the different browser modes with an accurate detection.

Lastly, IE10 is on the horizon and will contain different tokens in its UA string as well. The IE10 Trident token is now Trident/6.0, and compatibility mode for IE10 will still map to IE7 standards. It might be a good idea to add this to your function as it will be in use soon. Below are a few very helpful links on UA strings (IE in particular).

MSDN Library: Understanding User-Agent Strings