If you look at any site running Govpress in IE under Compatibility View, it breaks. Homepage title is visible, menus disappear, and widget areas break.

This is even true of https://govpress.co

Since this theme is designed for government use, I would suggest this issue be addressed – typically compatibility with a broad amount of older browsers is vital.

Thanks!

The site doesn’t render properly in IE9’s Compatibility View, as well as IE7. I am not so concerned with supporting IE7 as I am for it supporting IE9 Compatibility View. How do I go about fixing these errors so that my site renders properly in these two IE modes?

I’ve validated my site and there are two errors:

Error Line 58, Column 64: Bad value X-UA-Compatible for attribute http-equiv on element meta.
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1" />

Error Line 434, Column 210: Element link is missing required attribute property.
…x-content-slider/css/theme-silver.css?ver=3.5.1' type='text/css' media='all' />
Attributes for element link:
Global attributes
href
crossorigin
rel
media
hreflang
type
sizes
Also, the title attribute has special semantics on this element.

Thanks so much!

First off, I really like your theme. It is clean and professional with many customizations, which is the reason I chose it. Thank you!

I am having a little trouble with the slider though. I have experimented with viewing my site using several browsers and devices to see how others might experience my site. It is fine in Safari and fine on iPad/iPhone. The only combination that I am having issue with is viewing my homepage on my Windows computers in Internet Explorer 10 (v.10.0.9200.16576) in compatibility view. When compatibility view is turned off, the slider appears fine with no problems. When compatibility view is turned on, however, the text no longer centers in the slider image; the slider arrows are chopped off in the lower half; and the slider images are smaller than they should be. Is there a fix for this? I don’t make a habit of viewing in compatibility mode, but some viewers of my site might and the slider is likely the very first thing that they will see. I would greatly appreciate a look at it.

My website is: www.revisionphoto.com.

Thanks again!

To cut a very long story short despite best attempts, our IT set up (which is not ideal and is very complicated using a variety of VPNs)does not allow us to have different compatibility mode settings set for different sites (or at least we can manually make the changes but they revert overnight). Our new intranet only works with compatibility view activated( IE is the browser we must use – a mixture of versions are used across our business).

From my non-techie investigation into this, it looks like this is an issue that is only being created by certain themes (i.e responsive themes) and that less intuitive designs work okay without the need for compatibility mode settings to be activated.

As it stands I have been tasked with changing the theme to a more basic design. Something that is a tad dissapointing as our intranet looks great.

Before I do this – is there anyway to get Pinboard displaying correctly in IE without tweaking compatibility view?

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/captain-slider/

The same problem happens on the nextgen demo site: https://nextgen-gallery.com/slideshow/ (see: https://screencast.com/t/9mkswCiHs).

Is there any way around this?

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Every browser but IE8 will display the site correctly. In IE8 the page and navigation alignment is slightly off. Next to the url adress bar in the browser there is a “broken page” icon called Compatibility View. The option is also located under the Tools menu in IE8. I believe it is to allow for IE7 compatible sites. Selecting that icon/option will display the page correctly.

My question is, is there a way in the code to force the browser to recognize this and display correctly?