Fixing IE10 from rendering in IE7 mode

I was browsing a few articles I’d written years ago in IE10 when I realized Internet Explorer was breaking my commenting system, Disqus. Luckily Disqus provided a link to help troubleshoot the problem. After some searching through IE Developer tools and my own template source code, it seems like this Blogger template was designed with IE7 in mind.In the header it had this meta tag:

This line was causing IE10 (and probably IE9) to switch Documents Mode to IE7. I replaced it with this line courtesy of stackexchange:

IE10 rendering problems on My Technology Fetish should now be fixed. (Hopefully without introducing any bugs…)

What’s weird is this is a pretty standard template that Blogger offers. It’s not their new dynamic template because, well, I think they are ugly. Blogger has lacked advancement for years and it makes me wonder, how long until Google kills Blogger? They just killed Google Reader. Reader sat for years without any new development and I can think of a few other products that have decayed for years: Feedburner and Blogger.

All the more reason to switch to WordPress like I did elsewhere.