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</head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">I was wondering the same 
thing<br>
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Josh Pollock wrote:
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  <div dir="ltr">Why are the IE compatibility scripts hardcoded instead 
of
 echoed in a function hooked to wp_head? I'm wondering both in terms of 
why hardcoding is standard practice and why hooking to wp_head isn't 
required.</div>


  <div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On <span 
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displaystyle="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding: 0pt;">Wed, 
Sep 4, 2013</span></span> <span 
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displaystyle="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding: 0pt;">at 
7:53 PM,</span> Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a 
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" 
target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px
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be done right now, until this ticket makes it into core:<div><a 
moz-do-not-send="true" 
href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16024" target="_blank">http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16024</a><br>

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<br></div><div>In the meantime, those scripts can optionally be 
hard-coded in the document head (though they could be recommended to be 
added via callback hooked into wp_head).</div></div><div 
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On <span 
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Sep 4, 2013</span></span> <span 
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7:35 PM,</span> Ulrich Pogson <span dir="ltr"><<a 
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:grapplerulrich@gmail.com" 
target="_blank">grapplerulrich@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>

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<p dir="ltr">@chip what is your recommendation for including IE specific
 scripts in the header? I am talking about the second point you 
mentioned. </p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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