http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/08/29/457667.aspx

Before it was a feature, now it's a bug fixed.
Thanks IE team

You're saying you don't want honesty *or* standards compliance?

Philo

Philo: I think he's saying he wants Microsoft to admit that IE6 was woefully inadequate with respect to standards compliance, but I agree that using this as the basis for criticism is pretty pedantic.

I've never seen a page take advantage of that "feature" of IE6... is it a common thing?

"he wants Microsoft to admit that IE6 was woefully inadequate with respect to standards compliance"

That's never been a secret. I'd say most of the time it was by design. Bad design (and judgment) but still.