IE-11 Edge mode

November 27, 2013 7:47 PM

IE-11 for Win7-64 rolled out yesterday, and it makes one of my favorite sites break. The site isn't mine and it isn't going to get fixed any time soon.

If you hit F12 it pops up a developer debug window. The last icon (looks like a monitor and a mini-tower) includes a menu called "Document mode" and if I select "10", the web site works. Problem is, if I close that F12 window, it reverts to "Edge" and the site breaks.

How do I make it so that "10" is the permanent choice, even without opening the F12 window?

posted by Chocolate Pickle to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Response by poster: Just in passing, I haven't noticed any anomalies here on MeFi while using IE-11.

And "Use Firefox" or "Use Chrome" are not useful answers.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 7:49 PM on November 27, 2013

I'm on my Mac at the moment, but at the office on a Windows PC I thought that to the right of the URL bar area there's a little icon that looks like a sheet of paper that is torn in the middle and when you hover over it, it says something like compatibility view. If you click that on the site's page it should remember the setting and work like it did in the older IE version. I had a site that pretty much wouldn't work at all but by pressing that icon, it would be functional again.
posted by birdherder at 8:06 PM on November 27, 2013

Best answer: Turn on compatibility mode for that website
posted by deezil at 8:06 PM on November 27, 2013 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Birdherder, that icon is not present on IE11.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 9:16 PM on November 27, 2013

"Use Firefox" or "Use Chrome" are not useful answers

Use IE10.

Or if you simply must live in Microsoft's brave new world of stupid, turn on IE11 compatibility view the hard way. Expect even that to disappear with IE12.
posted by flabdablet at 3:30 AM on November 28, 2013 [1 favorite]