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What is the point of this article? It appears to be that Safari proxy mode is unreliable, which I guess is surprising but not that interesting.

Given that the actual article does not have anything to do with the headline ("error rates" is never really satisfactorily defined, the real story is proxy mode Safari, and IE6 came out 9 years ago), what makes this headline so compelling?

Do headlines with the word "surprising" always work? Is it that everyone deals with browsers, so a browser related story is likely to have a wider mind share? Is it that web developers all just want a chance to make fun of IE6, due to the collective pain that it has inflicted on all of us?



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