Magento – Internet Explorer 9 and Magento or IE 9 Magento vs

No sooner has the new Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 available, are even new problems. As with IE 6 refuse some things, unlike competitors such as Firefox, Opera, Safari etc.. – look good and / to work or. Annoying, especially against the background, that it was still full of joy, after in IE 7 and 8 almost everything went well and we were glad, that the IE 6 “extinct”.

Now he is so because, der Internet Explorer 9 and with it come new problems. But here is beautiful, that it points to many problems, the solution brings: PictureTheir own compatibility mode. That is more or less, that the IE 9 for this site to make IE8 problems and wants to go out of the way.
It takes “only” to click on the little torn sheet and then should have done a lot of problems.

Check it out just once. If he works, it can go further.

Since we expect the administrators but above all the customers can not always push this button (if this is at all known), the browser can already be notified when the page opens, that he should switch to compatibility mode.

This is accomplished with the following line, the one in the head.phtml directly under the “<title> Day sets:

<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=8″ />

This can be for the front end of the folder head.phtml app / design / frontend /[base or default]/IhrTemplate/template/page/html

and for the back end folders app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/page be done.

Used in Magento versions 1.4.1.1 and 1.4.1.0

Published by Covos

Since 2009 I have been working intensively with Magento. I started with the creation and operation of B2C stores. This was extended through my work in the logistics sector. This resulted first specialized B2E systems. Today I work day-a day with exciting B2C, B2B- and B2E projects and reports in this blog about challenges and give insider tips.

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