[Pro] IE Compatibility

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If I select in Document Setup > Output to have IE6/IE7 compatiblity, does it affect, slow down, impact in any way the way the website works or looks, in more modern browsers such as Safari, FireFox, IE 9 and Chrome? It would seem a good thing to select otherwise, to try and accomdate the stragglers still using an old browser. Thanks in advance - Lewis

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No. The IE stuff is folded into the page using Conditional Comments. These are special tags that begin with an HTML comment (so the browser ignores them totally) but then contain special code that IE recognizes and acts upon. The only people who get a slow-down are IE users, not “standard” browsers.

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On Nov 9, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Lewis wrote:

If I select in Document Setup > Output to have IE6/IE7 compatiblity, does it affect, slow down, impact in any way the way the website works or looks, in more modern browsers such as Safari, FireFox, IE 9 and Chrome? It would seem a good thing to select otherwise, to try and accomdate the stragglers still using an old browser. Thanks in advance - Lewis

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OK, so including the IE6/IE7 compatibility is a good thing, as I assumed.

Now, question, as to whether the selection of HTML or XHTML, Strict or Transitional makes any difference as well?

Thanks - Lewis

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Not to you (as a designer working directly in Freeway). You see the same thing in your layout, and the browser sees the same thing on screen. The difference would only be meaningful if you were working with a hand-coder, or integrating a CMS, or post-processing the generated code somehow, and those external resources requested/required a certain HTML level to match “house style”. Otherwise, no difference, all browsers deal with them equally well. The only functional difference I can think of: if you are fond of opening a new window with the target="_blank" trick, then you have to use a Transitional DOCTYPE, because Strict does not allow the target attribute to be added to a link. Ditto for iframe elements – can’t use those in a Strict page.

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On Nov 9, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Lewis wrote:

OK, so including the IE6/IE7 compatibility is a good thing, as I assumed.

Now, question, as to whether the selection of HTML or XHTML, Strict or Transitional makes any difference as well?

Thanks - Lewis

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