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Lee Sykes

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2008-12-05 12:38 PM
Hello, I have just received an email newsletter from fastshosts in the UK informing about IE8, I wanted to make a note of this for future use, so I'm copying it into here for everyone to have a read: Microsoft is currently preparing to release a new version of its Internet Explorer web browser. Version 8 is set to be released for all Windows users early in 2009, meaning that web masters may have some work to do now to ensure that their websites will display correctly in the new browser. How IE8 affects your website With IE8, Microsoft has enhanced how the web browser displays and renders websites. Previously, the company had been criticised for not complying with internet standards for HTML and CSS; the languages used to create websites. Within the latest version, however, the company claims to have massively improved web standards support, bringing Internet Explorer in line with web browsers such as Firefox, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome. This brings a problem: your website may break in the new version of Internet Explorer. (If you have coded your skins using CSS and XHTML compliant standards you should not experience problems) Luckily though, there’s an easy fix that you can put into your HTML: The easy fix Somewhere between your < head >< / head > tags of every page on your website, insert the following snippet of XHTML: < meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=7″ / > This tells Internet Explorer 8 to build your website exactly how it did in IE7. The advanced fix For the most part, your website will only break if it doesn’t adhere to web standards. If you hand code your website, we always recommend developing your site using CSS and XHTML standards to ensure that your website is future proofed. Find out more at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956197 from: http://blogs.fasthosts.co.uk/2008/11/get-ready-for-internet-explorer-8/

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Ken Maudsley User is Offline

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2009-01-29 08:46 PM
Lee, I've read that it must be the first meta tag to work. Should this fix be implemented by adding that line of code to the Default.aspx file? Ken

Lee Sykes

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2009-02-18 12:43 PM
hello, I have not tried this out, I just posted this here as a note. But if it does need to be the first metatag then yes you will need to add this in the default.aspx file as I do not think there is any other way of getting it into the first meta tag. Thanks,

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2009-05-07 01:51 PM
Where is default.aspx located? I've noticed a strange pixel break in one of my graphical headers that wasn't there untl IE8. Any suggestions? Have you seen this before?

Joseph Craig User is Offline

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2009-05-07 07:33 PM
default.aspx is in your website's root directory. I don't recommend that you edit this file to fix problems. It is more likely that your skin file is the likely source of problems, so I would start there, and with the skin.css file. You might want to debug the problems with IE8's new debugging tools. There is also a way to force IE8 to render a page in an IE7 compatibility mode. Also, I believe that the DotNetNuke folks may be looking at IE8 issues. If we give them a bit of time, they might be making changes. Or, if you find any solutions, reporting them to DotNetNuke might we a service to the community.

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carl

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2009-12-09 02:39 PM
My site (www.awas.com) isn't displaying properly in IE8, so I did some research and concluded that I needed to add the following at the top of the of my Default.aspx file: I tried this on my local testing site and it works fine, but when I copy the updated Default.aspx file to my server I have the same problem. I have made sure that my IE 8 Compatibility View Settings don't make special allowances for my local site. I'm a DNN novice - I've taken over this site from someone else who I now cannot contact. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

carl

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2009-12-09 04:20 PM
Please ignore that message, I've solved the problem.

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