I'm still looking for a solution to the Flickr badge “problem”. I sent an email to Roger Johansson of 456 Berea St. and I got an answer back extremely fast. I already thanked him and I'm going to do it again: thanks!

He pointed me to this post by Chris Heilmann of Wait till I come. It's definitely interesting but I'm happy with the simple Javascript call I got from Flickr and I'm just trying to figure out why IE puts the images outside the DIV.

I did some more tests, actually coding Javascript on the page old style:

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('<div id="photos_wrapper">');
document.write('<div id="photos">');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.flickr.com/badge_code_v2.gne?..."><\/script>');
document.write('</div>');
document.write('</div>');
var div = document.getElementById('photos');
alert(div.firstChild.src);
</script>

It does not validate so I'm doing it just to test. The alert at the end of the script gives back the correct URI or script if I do alert(div.firstChild.NodeName) but the images are still OUTSIDE the DIVs in IE6...or, at least, they appear to be.

Using the DOM to build the Javascript external call to Flickr :

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('<div id="photos_wrapper">');
document.write('<div id="photos">');
document.write('</div>');
document.write('</div>');
var div = document.getElementById('photos');
var js = document.createElement('script');
js.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');
js.setAttribute('src','http://www.flickr.com/badge_code_v2.gne?...');
div.appendChild(js);
alert(js.parentNode.id);
</script>

The result given by the alert at the end is correct (photos) but in Firefox it does not show the pictures the first time it loads the page (the Javascript call doesn't fire, I suppose) and doing a refresh causes the Javascript call to Flickr to take over the document making it blank and getting stuck on a bad URI call. On IE6 it just does not show the pictures (the Javascript call doesn't fire, I suppose).

Weird....

I also noticed that basically everyone that uses the Flickr badge as I do has the same “problem”, but it doesn't seem to bother them.