Most of the Dojo tools do not work with IE9 on 8.5.2.

 

The code below can go in the 'beforeRenderResponse' Event on the XPage to force IE8 compatibility...found on Matt White's blog.

//This forces page to load in IE8 compatibility
        try {
           var exCon = facesContext.getExternalContext();
               var response = exCon.getResponse();
               response.setHeader("X-UA-Compatible", "IE=EmulateIE8");
        } catch (e) {
        }

- This is what we had to do as well, but I put in a check using dojo.isIE(9, 9) so this hack is only applied if 9 is used.

 

- Problem with this is it's supposed to be circumventable, though I don't recall how.  It is the only "solution" for the nonce.

- The dojo-interest list indicates they have no intention of updating dojo before 1.6 to support this latest M$ debacle, which strikes me as shooting one's self in the foot.  IBM hasn't acted like they're going to do anything about it, either.  In a perfect world people would just avoid ie 9 in droves because it breaks things, but we all know that's not going to happen.  The thing I find vexing is how little anyone seems to care that it utterly borks XPage functionality and the only recourse is some hack of dubious repute.

 

Hope this helps...

Thank you David and Ryan for your responses, a great help. I am now using the following in the BeforeRenderResponse event:

 

//This forces page to load in IE8 compatibility
try {
if (context.getUserAgent().isIE(9, 9)) {
           var exCon = facesContext.getExternalContext();
               var response = exCon.getResponse();
               response.setHeader("X-UA-Compatible", "IE=EmulateIE8");
}
} catch (e) {
}