http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18070
--- Comment #46 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2009-07-22 14:01:30 --- (In reply to comment #43)
Actually I am not sure when to use winetricks and when to submit a bug. The projects' actual ambitions are not that clear to me.
Winetricks is used to workaround wine (e.g., msxml3/pdh) or application (not bundling visual basic/c runtimes) bugs. If you use winetricks to workaround a bug, be sure to mention it in the bug report (with a link to the bug you worked around).
IE6 is a bit of special case, since it's also meant to be used instead of ies4linux. IE6 also works around bugs in wine's mshtml/shdocvw implementations. The case here may be a jscript bug (based on some of the comments, though I haven't verified this myself).