What does <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> do?
Asked 07 September, 2021
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What's the difference if one web page starts with

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  <head> 
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> 

and If page starts with

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  <head> 
     <!-- without X-UA-Compatible meta -->

If there is no difference, I suppose I can just ignore the X-UA-Compatible meta header, since I just want it to be rendered in most standard mode in all IE versions.

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