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		JonoW on March 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft made their own IE6-countdown site. Compatability mode doesn't support ie6, and I believe its only for the renderer, not the JavaScript engine.

yuhong on March 4, 2011 | [–]

It is for the JavaScript engine too: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s4esdbwz(v=VS.85).as...

ejones on March 4, 2011 | [–]

Yeah, it doesn't seem to be a complete solution. My client actually ended up deploying a virtualized IE8 to sit alongside IE6 on all workstations.

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