Great work finding out about this.
A really nice to have would be to provide the ability to specify which
documentMode and browserMode you'd like the IE browser to use.

Cheers,

Alister Scott
Brisbane, Australia
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Hugh McGowan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Looks like we can get the information from browser.document.documentMode -
> that will return the mode for the page. You can set this mode in the browser
> (F12 developer tools, eg is an easy way to see this) or you can set it in
> the HTML meta tags.
>
> I don't think there's any way around it - for IE9 we just have to check
> what mode the page is using and fire events accordingly. We can at least
> code it so we only do it once/page and store it in the browser instance.
> This doesn't affect any of the other changes we made for IE9 because I was
> able to make the method calls work in both IE8 and IE9 - this is the only
> place we had to special case.
>
> On the bright side, IE9 is faster than IE8 so I don't think anyone will
> notice :)
>
> Hugh
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