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22nd January 2008 - Link Blog

Broken. Jeremy highlights the fly in the ointment: if you want IE 8 to behave like IE 8 (and not pretend to be IE 7), you HAVE to include the X-UA-Compatible header.

Posted 22nd January 2008 at 6:42 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 22nd January 2008.

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