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

Change the headers in .htaccess

BrowserMatch MSIE ie
Header set X-UA-Compatible "IE=Edge,chrome=1" env=ie

Found the solution to this problem here: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/378