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Aggiorno IE8 Compatibility Wizard lets you easily add the IE8 compatibility meta tag. This ensures flawless rendering of web pages aimed at previous versions of Internet Explorer

IE8 Compatibility Wizard does this in a surgical way, making only the necessary changes in your web pages. It will never reformat or break your files

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System requirements
  • Platform: Windows Vista / XP
  • Disk space: 3Mb
Product features
  • Supported file types: asp, aspx, htm, html, dhtml, xhtml, php, master.
  • Process result report: Total files processed and files requiring further action are displayed.
  • Allows file overwrite or backup: Web pages can be changed directly or a copy can be made with the changes.
  • Supports nested directories: Just select a base directory and the tool will traverse all nested directories and their web pages.
  • Automatically detects file encoding: Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Wizard detects the original file encoding based on file BOM, meta tag content attribute, XML encoding information or the default’s computer encoding.
  • Preserves file formatting, indentation and spacing: Thanks to the robust and precise Aggiorno parsers, the entire original file formatting is preserved; only surgical changes are made on web pages.
  • Can add or remove the following IE8 compatibility tags:
    • <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE-5" />: The page will be rendered in quirks mode.
    • <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE-7" />: The page will be rendered in IE7 standards mode even if no DOCTYPE is present.
    • <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE-EmulateIE7" />: The page will be rendered as IE7 does. This is the preferred compatibility mode.
    • <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE-8" />: This is the default IE8 and the most standards compliant mode.
    • <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE-edge" />: This prepares the page to render with any future IE version, always using the latest rendering engine.
  • Command line interface: An executable file called aggiornoe.exe is provided for scripted execution.
  • Preserves file dates: When overwriting files the original files dates will be preserved.
Product description

How easy is it to update or add the compatibility tags using the Aggiorno IE8 Compatibility Wizard? Download and launch the application, select the source folder of your Web site, decide where the new site will be stored, choose the appropriate flag for the intended IE version and hit Start.

IE8 has a more rigorous adherence to W3C-proposed web standards than previous versions. As a result, some percentage of web pages built according to older versions would break in IE8.

To avoid this situation, Microsoft proposed IE version targeting by defining a meta element or adjusting HTTP headers in the web server.

The Aggiorno IE8 Compatibility Wizard automates the task of adding meta elements for IE version targeting. This will fix web page compatibility problems with IE8, avoiding situations like the following:

  • Users can’t seem to get pages to come up or certain things aren’t working quite right.
  • Design and layout issues popup through your web site.
  • You are not sure where to start figuring out what works and what doesn’t.
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Aggiorno Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Wizard
  1. Source Directory: This is where Aggiorno will start looking for pages and will take that as the root of the web site.
  2. Output Directory: This is where the new website will be copied to.
  3. File Types: Aggiorno IE8 Compatibility Wizard will let you define the extensions of the files it will meta-tag, you can remove or add file extensions easily in this area.
  4. Compatibility Flag: This is where the meta tag type can be selected. It is also possible to update or remove the meta tag if necessary.
  5. Start: Once you have let the IE8 Compatibility Wizard to know its parameters just hit Start tagging and the tool will take care of the rest.

Usage sample

Some of your web site users start telling you the web site is displayed in an awkward way. They are using IE8 and you need to do something to correct the rendering issues. With the Aggiorno IE8 Compatibility Wizard you can add the appropriate meta tag to correct the problems:

Before using IE8 Compatibility Wizard
After using IE8 Compatibility Wizard
Page rendered in standards mode Page rendered in compatibility mode
Source code
Source code
 
…
<head>
   <title></title>
   <style type="text/css">
      body {
            font-family: verdana;
            font-size: 12pt;
      }
      …
   </style>
</head>
…

…
<head>
   <title></title>
   <style type="text/css">
      body {
            font-family: verdana;
            font-size: 12pt;
      }
      …
   </style>
   <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible"
   content="IE-EmulateIE7" />
</head>
…

In this case, the original page was built according to IE7. The following compatibility mode was selected in the IE8 Compatibility Wizard:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE-EmulateIE7" />

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