title: why am I triggering quirks mode in IE8?
body: <p>I'm working on a page that, when I load into IE8 and view the developers tools it tells me that page default is quirks mode.</p>
  
  <p>I've got a strict DTD:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I even went ahead and put in the explicit standards switch, though I didn't think I'd need to:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can't understand why page default isn't IE8 standards?</p>
  
  <p>Only thing I can think of is that to get to this page, I first have to log in to an application and the first pages I must traverse are old quirks mode pages.  Does IE decide on which mode to use at a server level, or is it supposed to decide page by page?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>