Testing Internet explorer

IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

Great tool for testing websites in different versions of Internet Explorer

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JQuery with maphighlight in IE8

If you have problem using jQuery and maphighlight in Internet Explorer 8, this link explains why:

https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=333905&wa=wsignin1.0

The reason is that IE8 have changed it’s support for VML rendering.

A simple solution to get your page to function in IE8 is to use the following tag

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />

This will cause the IE capability mode to kick in and everything should now work fine

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