Hi there! And a browser compatibility question

Hi, my name is Elian. I’m new here and want to say hello from The Netherlands.

First I should say what a great idea the whole SS concept is. I am very excited by all the possibilities and the community. Appreciate all the information available from the people here. I still have a lot to do but it is great fun!

I’ve been busy for a while with the problem that the footer of my site won’t show the gradient I have set up through ‘Appearance | Customize ‘ in IE10 while working fine in Firefox. Same happens using the CSS border-radius property. I am using the Dragonfly theme but also happens with the Child theme.

I’ve been reading and trying trying a lot on CSS3 browser compatibility but couldn’t find a solution. Then I noticed that the IE compatibility settings where set to

Browerser Mode: IE10
Document Mode: IE9

when visiting my site. When I change the document mode to ‘Standards’ the page renders fine.

I found out this was triggered by this code in the symbiostock/header.php

By removing the content= part the site now displays properly in IE10.
Is it wise to change this code or will I get other compatibility problems??