Mark McLaren's Weblog

Oh joy, another major HTML/CSS rendering engine for me to test my web applications against and I really cannot be bothered. IE8 may well turn out to be a really good thing but my early experiences of IE8 Beta are that it makes a right royal mess of my CSS/DHTML powered applications so until IE8 renders like IE7 and Firefox here is my servlet filter solution for my Java applications:

package edu.bristol;

import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

public class FixForIE8 implements Filter {

    public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig)
            throws ServletException {
    }

    public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, 
                         ServletResponse response, 
                         FilterChain chain)
            throws IOException, ServletException {
        ((HttpServletResponse) response).setHeader("X-UA-Compatible", "IE=EmulateIE7");
        chain.doFilter(request, response);
    }

    public void destroy() {
    }
}

See also: Introducing IE=EmulateIE7