How to visit an IE5-only website with IE mode in Edge without opening IE to setting the compatibility view?

Question

Here is the current situation:

1. I am maintaining a large IE5-only system.
2. I must open this system on the localhost during development.
3. Our network administrators are planning to force all employees to use EDGE, all IE operations will be redirected to Edge.
4. Our network administrators won't configure IE mode policies for individual developers' localhost URLs, but the localhost URLs format of different developers may be different.

Any workaround to visit IE5-only websites with IE mode in Edge without opening IE to set Compatibility View?

Answer 1

Hi @證壹 王

Can you use group policy? If yes, you can refer to this doc to configure IE mode Compatibility mode to IE5. The steps are like below:

1. Enable Internet Explorer integration using Group Policy
2. Configure the Enterprise Mode Site List

For how to create the Enterprise Mode Site List, you can refer to this doc. To load the site in IE5 Compatibility mode in Edge IE mode, the sample sites list file is like below:

<site-list version="4">  
  <created-by>  
    <tool>EMIESiteListManager</tool>  
    <version>12.0.0.0</version>  
    <date-created>04/12/2022 06:53:26</date-created>  
  </created-by>  
  <site url="localhost:44364/test.html">  
    <compat-mode>IE5</compat-mode>  
    <open-in>IE11</open-in>  
  </site>  
</site-list>  

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Answer 2

I found an option that could enable the compatibility view without IE.

Now the problem has been solved.