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A compatibility mode is a software mechanism in which a software emulates an older version of software in order to allow obsolete software or files to remain compatible with the computer's newer hardware or software. Examples of the software using the mode are operating systems and Internet Explorer.

A compatibility mode is a software mechanism in which a software emulates an older version of software in order to allow obsolete software or files to remain compatible with the computer's newer hardware or software. Examples of the software using the mode are operating systems and Internet Explorer.

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Override intranet compatibility mode IE8

By default IE8 forces intranet websites into compatibility mode. I tried changing the meta header to IE8, but it doesn't acknowledge the meta header and just uses the browser setting. Does anyone know how to disable this?
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Why does IE9 switch to compatibility mode on my website?

I have just installed IE9 beta and on a specific site I created (HTML5) IE9 jumps to compatibility mode unless I manually tell it not to. I have tried removing several parts of the website but no change. Including removing all CSS includes. On some…
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IE8 non-compatibility mode, image with max-width and height:auto

I have an image with this markup And I am using CSS to downsize it to 600px width, like so: img { max-width:600px; height:auto; } Can anyone explain why this method works in…
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How to prevent IE9 from rendering intranet sites in compatibility mode

IE9 has a weird problem where it renders intranet sites in compatibility mode. Does anyone know a way how to prevent this from happening? Note: I am not looking for a way to prevent it on a single users machine, but some programmatic way to prevent…
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Force Browser Mode=IE8 and document mode=IE8 Standards

I have a internal website hosted on IIS. I added the following meta code and also add http-header that the page should in IE8 Browser mode and document mode. We tested it on Visual Studio and and…
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jQuery Validation plugin, IE7 "SCRIPT3: Member not found"

I have the following:
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Can you enter x64 32-bit "long compatibility sub-mode" outside of kernel mode?

This might be an exact duplicate of Is it possible to execute 32-bit code in 64-bit process by doing mode-switching?, but that question is from a year ago and only has one answer that doesn't give any source code. I'm hoping for more detailed…
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Force document mode=IE8 Standards

So I am having problems getting IE8 to not default to IE7 document mode, as our intranet is set up. I am using IE dev tools to set plus a little bit of js to check what the browser is reporting the document mode to be. I won't be able to change any…
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Internet Explorer automatically switches to compatibility mode (IE9 and IE10)

On certain page on my site, Internet Explorer automatically switches to compatibility mode and tries to render the page in compatibility view (IE7 mode). Also the URL gets added to the compatibility view list.
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How long will IE compatibility modes work?

Unfortunately, we have a massive legacy web application at work that we can't get rid of. It works on IE only, and is completely dependent on the "X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE8" to work correctly in newer IE versions. My question is whether this is…
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Stuck with IE compatibility mode

The URL of the site I am working on ended up on Microsoft compatibility list. This means that every time IE users visit it, IE9 mode is forced on which makes it impossible to use modern CSS or Javascript. First 6 lines of every HTML document on the…
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WebBrowser Control IE8 Compatibility Mode On/Off Switch

I am having a IE8 compatibility issue while using the WebBrowser control to navigate to a website. The strange thing is sometimes the website works, but more than likely it wont. I can refresh the page sometimes and it works as well. Just going to…
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How can I programmatically add website to compatibility list internet explorer 11?

I've tried adding registry entries at: Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Key Path: Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\BrowserEmulation\PolicyList\ Value name: sub.companyname.com Value data: sub.companyname.com However in Internet Explorer 11 this…
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Why does new T-SQL of SQL Server 2008 work on database in compatability mode 80?

Experimenting with new features of T-SQL, I've run into a puzzle. Here is some new syntax supported by SQL 2008 and I'd expect it to work on databases set for compatibility mode 100 (i.e. 2008) and not work for compat mode 80 (i.e. 2000). Yet this…
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How to run Java in compatibility mode?

Does Java support running in compatibility mode? In other words if we have JDK 8 install on system, can it be configured to run my application on 7 or previous release using the same installation ? I can give one example like IE-11 can be switch to…
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