Some sites still serve up this workaround for an IE feature that was removed in IE7. IE7 was released in 2006.pic.twitter.com/KkFEDVWyNM
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why? It doesn't hurt anything
I bet those are fake user agent strings, not humans using an actual MSIE6 on WinXP (or MSIE4 on Win98).
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