Override intranet compatibility mode IE8

Question

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 brows

Answer 1

This isn't exactly a solution but, I feel it is the best one. On our intranet sites we tell people it can only be accessed by Firefox, we don't take kindly to IE users around here. Check the user agent on the server or client side and deny them access from IE. And I'm a .NET programmer.