Reply To: XMetaL 8.0 Enterprise: Internal browser/preview issue

[paorear]

I found the solution to the issue via this blog post:
[url=http://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2011/May/21/Web-Browser-Control-Specifying-the-IE-Version]http://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2011/May/21/Web-Browser-Control-Specifying-the-IE-Version[/url]

and this documentation:
[url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ee330730(v=vs.85).aspx]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ee330730(v=vs.85).aspx[/url]

Apparently, the web browser control when hosted in an application defaults to the IE 7 rendering mode. There's no easy way to say “use the latest version” when hosting the control. You can, however, specify a simple registry entry on a per .exe basis that then effectively enables the desired emulation mode for the host application.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMAINFeatureControlFEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION]
“xmetal80.exe”=dword:00002af9

The problem in my case was that we were leveraging some HTML 5 CSS features that were not supported in IE 7. Making this tweak solved everything.

Hopefully this may help others as well.

Paul O'Rear

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