Dynamic SCRIPT elements and Safari 2.0

Patrick Hunlock's excellent article Howto Dynamically Insert Javascript And CSS reminded me of a caveat I ran across last summmer: early 2.0 versions of Safari have a bug that prevents dynamic SCRIPT elements from loading JavaScript content. The bug was fixed in version 2.0.2.

That's probably the edgiest of edge cases, but it had me slamming my forehead against the wall for a few days. I was forced to do version sniffing since dynamic SCRIPT insertion was the only way to perform the cross-domain Ajax operations required.

Here are two bugs I found while researching the problem last year.