title: FontAwesome does not load on Windows 8.1 on IE11
body: <p>My website <a href="http://www.jungledragon.com" rel="noreferrer">www.jungledragon.com</a> makes heavy use of the icon font "FontAwesome". This week I upgraded my system to Windows 8.1, which comes with IE11 installed. I noticed that the FontAwesome font fails to load completely, and the browser console shows these errors:</p>
  
  <pre><code>CSS3117: @font-face failed cross-origin request. Resource access is restricted.
  File: fontawesome-webfont.eot
  CSS3117: @font-face failed cross-origin request. Resource access is restricted.
  File: fontawesome-webfont.woff
  CSS3114: @font-face failed OpenType embedding permission check. Permission must be Installable. File: fontawesome-webfont.ttf
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know what these errors mean, they are related to cross origin permissions, due to the actual font files being hosted on Amazon S3 in my case.</p>
  
  <p>However, here is the weird thing: I do have a CORS policy applied to the bucket in question, and this has always worked. To do some more research, I tried putting IE11 into different document modes, being IE10, IE9, and IE8. The font fails to load in all cases. This is strange, since when I was on Windows 8, it would work on IE8, 9 and 10 just fine. </p>
  
  <p>It looks like those document modes are really useless though, since I then continued to do some real testing using browserstack, making use of real native browser versions instead of document modes. On both Windows 7 and 8, the font loads fine in IE8, 9, 10, and also in the IE11 preview.</p>
  
  <p>I'm now a bit lost on where the problem is. Is the problem a result of Windows 8.1 specifically (it seems for me, but I can't test that in browserstack, it's not available)? Or is it perhaps a problem only in the final version of IE11? And if so, why is it a problem in every document mode?</p>
  
  <p>Note: should you be wanting to help in testing, on the website it is very easy to see whether the font loads or not: the global navigation bar will have no icons, as well as several other areas of the site. </p>