Emulate IE7 for IE8 but not for IE9 using “X-UA-Compatible”

Question

I have a website depending on vector drawing, for Internet Explorer I\'m using VML and for other browsers I\'m using SVG. IE8 however, doesn\'t have support for neither with

Answer 1

I think what you need is:

according to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/06/16/ie-s-compatibility-features-for-site-developers.aspx as it states this as "... an example that combines values so that IE8 renders a webpage in IE7 Standards mode while IE9 renders the webpage in IE9’s Standards mode:"

However I for one can't get this to work.