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-<p>(This is surprisingly tricky because the HTML5 doctype breaks excanvas in IE8. See <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/dygraphs-users/browse_thread/thread/c60709e04bc7fe5f#">this discussion</a> for details.)</p>
+<p>(This is surprisingly tricky because the HTML5 doctype breaks excanvas in IE8. See <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/dygraphs-users/browse_thread/thread/c60709e04bc7fe5f#">this discussion</a> for details. Note that the <meta http-equiv…> line must appear <i>first</i> in the <head> section for this to work propertly.)</p>
<p>While VML emulation sounds like it would be slow, it works well in practice for most charts.</p>