This standalone example has a DXFilter to render a gradient, it renders in quirks mode. IE10 has 'show legacy filters' set to off, I see it in the 'internet' zone. I still see the gradient?
from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh801215(v=vs.85).aspx
"DirectX-based Filters and Transitions (DX filters) are obsolete in Internet Explorer 10 for webpages in the Internet Zone. "
Why does this work?
<!-- Comment before Doctype to force quirks mode in IE6/7 -->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head><meta http-equiv="X-UA-COMPATIBLE" content="IE=5">
</head>
<style type="text/css" >
.SomeDiv
{
WIDTH: 50px;
HEIGHT: 50px;
FILTER: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(GradientType=1, StartColorStr='#00ff00', EndColorStr='#ff0000');
}
</style>
<div class='SomeDiv'>
Hi
</div>
</html>
Obsolete does not mean removed. In this case, there are two reasons:
If it is inconsistently appearing in the Internet Zone, there are two reasons: