How do you capture javascript Syntax Errors and other non-runtime Errors in ie6?

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Published on 2010-03-16T23:04:00Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 22:23 UTC
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I'm trying to set the onError event to hush up errors in ie

window.onError = function(){ return true; }

then I tried to initiate some Syntax Errors, and it still shoots an error alert in ie6

anyway to capture and handle this?

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