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Asked: 2026-05-25T19:59:07+00:00

I have a very strange issue regarding only IE8 + Windows Vista, the error

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I have a very strange issue regarding only IE8 + Windows Vista, the error is very strange, I’ll use some example names.

I have 2 pages, page1.html and page2.html, when opening both typing the address directly, there is no quirks mode.

When page2.html is opened via a _blank link (new window), it is displayed in Quirks Mode, this ONLY happens when the page is opened the way mentioned above.

Things I’ve tried

  • Opening page2.html from different websites.
  • Using <!DOCTYPE html> on page1.html and page2.html.

Things to note:

  • The doctype on the pages is <!DOCTYPE html>
  • There is NO whitespace / XML declaration above the DOCTYPE
  • If the link is opened in a new tab or same tab, there is no problem.

This just baffles me, it works fine from IE8 on Windows7, and also works fine with IE6 on Windows XP.

Update: This doesn’t happen on the test server, only on the production server, so is there anything server side that could affect this?

Also tried <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" > which I thought would force it to render as IE-8, but alas, it doesn’t work.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This was a rather straight forward problem, it was nothing to do with the page having bad code, it was an IE addon that caused it, thanks for help.

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