Greetings All,
I am having issues with a poorly written vendor product and can not quite find a way to get IE to do what I need.
The website in question is https://test.cqr.gehealthcare.com/
It has the following meta tag at the top
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EDGE,chrome=1"> (I can not change this, vendor issue)
This causes issues as it makes IE11 run in EDGE mode which breaks the site. Of course this tag was not an issue back in IE9 as EDGE would have been IE9 at that point in the game.
If you try to go to it in IE11 it hangs on a loading... please wait.... screen instead of taking you to the logon screen. If I hit F12 for developer mode and switch the document type to either 10 or 9, 9 seems to work a little better, then the page
runs as expected. I did attempt using Compability Mode prior to this and it did not help at all.
With the above results in mind, I went to our EnterpriseMode.xml file which IE loads under the direction of a GPO. I add the following to the docmode section of the file
<domain docMode="9">test.cqr.gehealthcare.com</domain>
It is my understanding that Enterprise Mode forced via a sitelist should override the X-UA-Compability and I have verified that IE is in fact loading the new version of the sitelist by checking the version number in the registry. It loads up right
at 65 seconds as I would expect it to. The problem though is this does not seem to work in overriding the X-UA-Compability as the page is still broken when I attempt to load it. Additionally, when I check F12 Developer Tools, it still states that
the page is set to EDGE mode via X-UA-Compability.
I would greatly appreciate any insight into this any one may have as the vendors solution seems to be deploy Chrome to your organization which is just not an option at this time. I know if I force the page to doctype 9 via the Developer Tools it works,
so there must be a way.
IE Version: 11.0.9600.17358
Update Version 11.0.13 (KB2987107)