HTL counterpart of this would have same impact I believe:<div data-sly-test="${wcmmode.edit}">

I dont have IE browser but I tested it on non IE and it works... <%if(WCMMode.fromRequest(request) != WCMMode.EDIT){%><!--[if lt IE 9]> <%}%>  <div class="upgrade-browser-banner" role="alert">        <cq:include path="alertMessage" resourceType="foundation/components/text"/>  </div><%if(WCMMode.from...

What is your use case. Why do you want to remove the dialog... Just want to understand that if nothing is authorable, what is the intention for creating this component?

Ok. understood... then one thing you can probably do is to have this conditional comment inside WCMmode.edit.. i mean just the if line and end-if line

It could be getting inherited from the parent component... Check sling:resourceSuperType of your component

I tried your command and getting 401..

I dont think you can check it inside the conditional comment. The check should work if you do it in body of condition...

From what I think, node name is mandatory and resource type is optional. So you can shorten it by removing the resourceType from it only.

This is how templates inherently work. Once page is create out of template, it works even if you delete the template... Basically all properties of template are copied to the page. If you want it to be available on all pages, you would need to author it atleast once after making a change..

For any 3rd party Jar(not provided by the Felix container), you need to bundle it and send or embed it in your current bundle. Take a look at java - OSGI - handling 3rd party JARs required by a bundle - Stack Overflow . It talks about similar thing. Hope this helps..