Bonno Bloksma wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have a website that for a few more months still requires IE7 (or IE6) and
> detects when someone is using IE8 without the compatibility option set. We
> show them a page outlining what to do and after that they can continue.
> This has been working for a while however suddenly a lot of people do NOT
> see the compatibility button anymore and therefore cannot click on it. The
> menu option to add our domain to the sites where IE7 compatibility is to be
> used still works but it is a lot more work and most people don't read that
> far in the help tekst. :-(
>
> Did Microsoft change something in the past few weeks that makes this button
> suddenly NOT appear where it used to do so before? Is there a way we can
> force this button to be show in IE8?
>
> Bonno

If you want to see if your site is in the Compatibility View List, use
the following URL:

res://iecompat.dll/iecompatdata.xml