ie8-compatibility-mode

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 settings other than what markup I can give. In otherwords I'm not an admin, the only control I have is within the browser. I have tried: <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=8"> But this does not change how the document mode is reported, it still reported as IE7. JS Fiddle Jamie Hutber One might think is would be a prerequisite, and I

I have a some Chinese characters that I'm trying to display on a Kentico-powered website. This text is copy/pasted into Kenticos FCK editor, and is then saved and appears on the site. In Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, the characters appear exactly as expected. In IE 8 Standards mode, I see only boxes. The text is UTF-8 encoded, and as far as I can tell, it is encoded correctly in the response from the server. There is a Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 response header, and a <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> meta tag on the page too. When I download the

i work for a company where all our sites currently use the XHTML 1.0 transitional doctype (yes i know it is very old school). I want to change them all to use the HTML5 doctype seeing as it is backwards compatible. One of the reasons why i want to make the switch is because in IE8 if someone has the developer tools installed then the old XHTML doctype switches the browser into compatibility mode and renders the page as IE7. From reading up on it i was led to believe that the HTML5 doctype will set any page to render in standards mode, but this is not happening when i test it on our staging

We have SQL Server 2012 with SSRS installed on Windows Server 2008. There are some issues with reports not displaying correctly unless compatibility mode is enabled in IE 10. We also have a development server with the same setup but there the reports load fine because all pages rendered by the report server have the following meta tag: <META HTTP-EQUIV="X-UA-Compatible" CONTENT="IE=5"> Our production server does not have this and I am trying to add the same meta tag there but can't figure out how and the person who originally setup our dev server is no longer here. I tried looking at MSRS11