We are running Websphere 8.5 on our test server. We use RAD for development (JSPs/Java EE)and have Websphere 8.5 installed on our local workstations.
A DBA compiles my code and deploys it to the test server. However, when he did everything was broken in IE. When I run it on my local machine (server - localhost) everything works fine in both IE and Chrome. When I use Chrome instead of IE on the test server everything runs fine. What breaks is mostly some CSS is missing, JavaScript indexOf on an Array is not a known function for the array object, and everything looks really basic, the GO buttons are just little tiny squares that look nothing like they do on my local machine or in Chrome. I read that indexOf is not compatible with IE version < 9, but everyone mostly runs 10 or 11 here.
Could the test server somehow detect that we are using IE and maybe provide us with a different version of the page? We are compiling with JDK 1.6 Is there anything that I can tell the DBA to check on the Test server?
IE Compatibility Mode has a number of "triggers", including being in particular IE "zones", like "Trusted Sites" or "Intranet", and a "blacklist" maintained by Microsoft.
We saw similar behavior once, with our Development server looking different from our Test and Production servers, because the former was in our company's domain, while the latter in our customer's domain.
Might be a useful link: https://hsivonen.fi/doctype/#iemodes