STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
1. open the following url with java console open under firefox:
http://sqeweb/jsn/users/fred/deployment_ws/fred/deployment_6_UR_int_ws/deployment/src/plugin/FunctionalTest/FunctionalTest/html/HTMLFormAcceptCharsetTest.html

According to http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/att_form_accept_charset.asp, "accept-charset" attribute is not supported under IE.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
No exception will be printed in console and string "all tests pass" will be printed.
ACTUAL -
The following strings are printed:
#### compare accept-charset, method return false. str:ISO-8859-1 vs null
#### test fail

HTMLFormElement.getAttribute("accept-charset") returns null

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

The applet source code is:
http://sqeweb/jsn/users/fred/deployment_ws/fred/deployment_6_UR_int_ws/deployment/src/plugin/FunctionalTest/FunctionalTest/src/HTMLFormAcceptCharsetTest.java

The implementation by javascript for this function can be found at:
http://sqeweb/jsn/users/fred/deployment_ws/fred/deployment_6_UR_int_ws/deployment/src/plugin/FunctionalTest/FunctionalTest/html/HTMLFormAcceptCharsetTestScript.html