diff --git a/templates/BlankPage.ss b/templates/BlankPage.ss
index 86b1d5376f..27486d05b6 100644
--- a/templates/BlankPage.ss
+++ b/templates/BlankPage.ss
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" >
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
-<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
 <title>$Title</title>
 <% base_tag %>
 </head>
