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Is it legal to use IE specific metatags in HTML5?

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Depending on your access to the server/server-side code, you could deliver X-UA-Compatible as a header. I am not sure if the same can be done for imagetoolbar.

Edit: Your other option would be conditional comments:

<!--[if IE]>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
<![endif]-->

GWB 2010-06-04 20:36:31

Hey, nice idea with the conditional comments! +1.

Pekka 2010-06-04 20:51:54

i know an idea rocks when it is comprised fully of things i already knew, only someone else was smart enough to put them together in a way i didn't think of myself :) **nice one**, +1 to you, and, of course, answer accepted.

Nir Gavish 2010-06-05 08:45:40

sorry to say it doesn't work :(

Nir Gavish 2010-07-26 07:56:16

Well that sucks. You can still go the header route for IE compatibility mode (though I am not sure why you'd want to emulate IE7 for what I assume is new code if you are using HTML5). That being said, I personally disagree with W3C's decision to validate metadata content. IMO you should be able to specify any metadata about the document that you desire (and it appears that this used to be the case -- these meta elements do not throw errors in HTML4 and XHTML1).

GWB 2010-08-02 18:27:50

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