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internet-explorer-8
Somebody
Somebody

Reputation: 9645

Strange HTTP_USER_AGENT for IE8 in PHP

How is that possible?

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/7080/wtfsg.jpg

Any solution to separate IE8 from IE7?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 756

Answers (2)

Mika Petteri Korhonen
Mika Petteri Korhonen

Reputation: 26

In this case you need to check from your developer toolbar if you are rendering your site as IE7.

You can get to the developers toobar by hiting F12 and checking the browser mode and puting it to IE 8.

Upvotes: 0

Piskvor left the building
Piskvor left the building

Reputation: 92792

To quote this article on IEBlog:

IE8 will send the “MSIE 7.0” version information when viewing sites with Compatibility View enabled. (...) A new “Trident” token in the User-Agent string allows your code to detect Internet Explorer 8 clients even when they are using the Compatibility View feature.

To wit, your page is displayed in Compatibility mode, hence the UA change.

Upvotes: 2

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