How do I get IE9 to use standards compliant mode when developing on localhost?

Question

According to MSDN, all I need to force standards compliant mode is to include the HTML 5 doctype:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg699338%28v=vs.85%29.aspx<

Answer 1

See the "IE Windows special: the xml prolog" section in this document:

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html

Anything before the DOCTYPE will cause it to switch to Quirks mode