Detecting IE8 Emulating IE7 
March 26th, 2008
I had this problem today.. I want to detect IE8 when it’s trying to emulate IE7.. dont ask why.. just trust there was a good reason. Point is – IE8 gives an IE7 user agent:
4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)
One way to do it is to use JavaScript to detect the presense of XDomainRequest, which is a new addition to the browser, and peaks in on the IE7 emulated mode.
Ie:
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