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A compatibility mode is a software mechanism in which a software emulates an older version of software in order to allow obsolete software or files to remain compatible with the computer's newer hardware or software. Examples of the software using the mode are operating systems and Internet Explorer.

A compatibility mode is a software mechanism in which a software emulates an older version of software in order to allow obsolete software or files to remain compatible with the computer's newer hardware or software. Examples of the software using the mode are operating systems and Internet Explorer.

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EmulateIE7 mode set in IIS7/web.config does not show page in proper mode in IE11

I have a web site and IE8, IE9, and IE10 always worked great using IE=EmulateIE7 mode in HTTP header response from IIS/7, but this mode does not seem to render properly in IE11. The page does not render or behave properly in IE11, although it works…
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Why is a trailing SET inconsistently throwing an error in SQL?

I'm looking at an error from one of our web applications, and it was calling a stored procedure that was responsible for updating a record in the database. This stored procedure has worked for weeks with no issues. Then one day it started throwing…
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Set IE compatibility mode using X-UA-Compatible

We have noticed that in some IE8 and IE9 and IE10 the meta tag is not respected...or at least looks like the browser ignores it. Any other suggestons how to explicitly set the…
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IE10 compatibility mode handles onpropertychange wrong

I am using some JS events to track changes on an HTML input field because I need to validate the input. $("#field").bind("propertychange keyup input paste", function() { ValidateFunction('field'); }); } Everyting works pretty fine, but IE10 in…
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IE compatibly document modes

i want to test my website on IE X as appear for normal user who use IEx, but i have confusion with the difference between "Standards" and "Internet explorer X standards" as appeared in the image.
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Dropdown menu - Jquery problems on IE7

EDIT: The code and examples have been changed, see the progress below. I'm working on a menu that uses Jquery to animate the display of the dropdown/flyout lists. The idea is, to have a menu that works well without javascript but when it is enabled…
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Is it possible to set an application's windows compatibility mode at run-time?

We are using a 3rd party library that sometimes does not work correctly on Win7. WE know how to configure this at installation time, but we'd also like to consider setting it at run time. Is this possible, or does that context have to be set prior…
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Visual Studio 2010 toolbox empty when run in XPSP3 Compatibility Mode in Win 7?

I have found that the only way to get a non-empty toolbox in the Visual Studio 2010 designer in Win 7 is to not run the IDE in XPSP3 Compatibility Mode. Why is this the case?
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Cannot hide compatibility button using html5boilerplate

I've gone through lots of questions on stackoverflow but I can't get this to work. I am using html5boilerplate with a little bit of WP PHP on top of it and I am wondering if that could be the reason why I am not able to hide the compatibilty button…
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Certain computers display compatibility view

I know that this question had been asked everywhere but I just can't get the solution even after trying the suggested ways. So my client's IE automatically switched to compatibility view while viewing the website and the navigation is not displaying…
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SQL Server 2008 R2 running in compatibilty mode 80. What features i get to use?

We have SQL Server 2008 R2 running in comaptibilty mode 80 (2000) as we lot of discontinued features used. Intially i thought i will get only features 2000 to use, but as pleasent surprise i show INFORMATION_SCHEMA, i thought this is superset case.…
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Why does IE9 give the option to render in compatibility mode

Why on some sites is there the option to render the page in compatibility mode, as in the little broken page icon in the address bar. Then on other sites it doesn't. What ie9 logic in deciding if this option should be present or not Even if the…
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Re-package a x86 installer for 64-bit Windows without access to an older Windows OS

I have an older Windows 32 program that needs to be repackaged for Windows 8. All I have is the installer, which does not run in compatibility mode, although the program itself does run in compatibility mode once installed (this was tested by…
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compatibility mode causes css problems

Good day, all, I am afraid I cannot share a working URL or sample code for this one; I'm working on a proprietary site for a client. I am also unable to replicate in an environment in which I build sample code from the ground up. Rather, I'm being…
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