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Post: i have a solution

nobby

i have a solution 

In Microsoft disables automatic IE 8 downloads

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This is very simple for MS to solve - just change the name of the application...

If IE8 didn't say "i'm IE" in its user agent, but instead said "I'm George" (*) then no site would sniff it as IE and wouldn't try to "fix" its HTML to work..

Or is that too simplistic a view?

(*) just an example name it could use