Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Wizard Quick Start

How easy is it to add or update the compatibility tags using the Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Wizard?

Getting your sites ready for IE8 doesn't have to be an impossible task. It is as easy as buy and download, then launch the application, select your web stie’s source folder, decide where the new web site should be stored, choose the flag you want to meta tag your pages with and hit Start.

Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Wizard
  1. 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.
  2. File Types: Internet Explorer 8 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.
  3. Source Directory: This is where Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Wizard will start looking for pages and will take that as the root of the web site.
  4. Output Directory: This is where the new website will be copied to.
  5. Start: Once you have let the Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Wizard to know its parameters just hit Start tagging and the tool will take care of the rest.
  6. Activate: this button allows you to register the program

Total files processed and files requiring further action are displayed in the Process Result field.

Web pages can be changed directly or a copy can be made with the changes, remember, IE8 Compatibility Wizard will make only the necessary changes in your web pages. File formatting and properties such as creation date and last modification will be kept.

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>
…

You can add or remove the following Internet Explorer 8 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 Internet Explorer 8 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.

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Other characteristics

Supports nested directories, just select a base directory and the tool will traverse all nested directories and their web pages.

Also, automatically detects the original file encoding based on file BOM, meta tag content attribute, XML encoding information or the computer default encoding.

Internet Explorer 8 has a command line interface. The file called aggiornoe.exe is provided for scripted execution.

What is the problem with IE8?

Internet Explorer 8 has a more rigorous adhesion to W3C-proposed web standards than previous versions like Internet Explorer 6 or Internet Explorer 7, as a consequence the compatibility between these versions is technically broken.

Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Wizard will fix web page compatibility problems with Internet Explorer 8, 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.

You need to keep in mind that this should be a temporal solution while you get your site ready according standards, and then you can use Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Wizard as well to remove the meta tag.

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