HTA and 'x-ua-compatible' meta tag

Question

Added to post Jun-19-2014

Thanks Bond. Since you had IE9, I appreciate your test. Hopefully if somebody out there has IE 10 they will test it, too. It does not mak

Answer 1

Looks like later versions of IE is not supporting HTA as mentioned in the other answers. One solution to your problem is: Make your HTA file navigable (HTA attribute navigable="yes") and do not specify any x-ua-compatible meta tags. In the HTA file navigate to another file which has the x-ua-compatible tag. The file you navigated will have the HTA priviliges:

HTA File:

htacontent.htm

  
  
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