watir/watir — comment on commit 4585dc3bda12745cab51b409df8032f4c7b4a320
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By hmcgowan:

The document mode is there because IE8 and IE9 fire events differently and we need to check to see what the document mode is to know if we should use the older ole_object.fire_event or ole_object.dispatch_event.

Though that makes me realize I should at least make the tests I just added to watirspec compliant only for :ie...will do that