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Compatibility view in IE8

TL;DR; Explains how IE8’s Compatibility View lets users easily switch to IE7 mode for better website display, with the feature appearing only on certain sites.

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If you were worried about your pages viewing correctly in IE8 Beta 1 you had to restart your browser to enable “IE7 Compatibility mode”. Now it is easy:

Compatibility view in IE8

Although it seams to do a bit of detecting and only displays it on certain sites.

For example Microsoft.com and Google.com do not get the little button.

But Gmail does :)

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