HE and MSIE versions

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Please explain the compatibility of HE MSIE publications and the version of MSIE that is installed on a users computer.

For example MSIE v9 is much more standards compliant (in js and css standards) than previous versions. This means that some of the “tweaks” that were used in previous versions (MSIE 7/8) web pages are not needed or work a bit differently in MSIE v9.

So does a HE publication automatically use the “IE engine” of the latest version of MSIE installed on the computer it is running on? Or does a particular version of HE use a specific version of the MSIE engine?

Should js code in a publication source test for a particular version of MSIE when doing some of the less compatible operations?

Thanks.

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You are right: the HE publication automatically uses the “IE engine” of the latest version of MSIE installed on the computer it is running on.
Yes, you should use JS code if you want to test for a particular version of MSIE. Note that in HE 4, we’ll be adding a new global variable to tell you which version of IE is installed. Until that, you can use jQuery for instance.