Comments on: getElementsByTagNameNS. Now I Know. And Knowing is Half the Battle. http://htmlcssjavascript.com/javascript/getelementsbytagnamens-now-i-know-and-knowing-is-half-the-battle/ Not a Ninja, Pirate or Jedi. Tue, 15 May 2012 08:20:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Steve http://htmlcssjavascript.com/javascript/getelementsbytagnamens-now-i-know-and-knowing-is-half-the-battle/#comment-4170 Steve Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:56:33 +0000 http://htmlcssjavascript.com/?p=85#comment-4170 god! IE is sooo annoying! Thanks for the solution. The fix for me (using google feed api) was: if ( document.getElementsByTagNameNS !== undefined ) { var mediathumb = google.feeds.getElementsByTagNameNS(item,'*', 'thumbnail')[0].getAttribute("url"); } else { var mediathumb = item.getElementsByTagName('media:thumbnail')[0].getAttribute("url"); }; god! IE is sooo annoying! Thanks for the solution. The fix for me (using google feed api) was:

if ( document.getElementsByTagNameNS !== undefined ) {
var mediathumb = google.feeds.getElementsByTagNameNS(item,’*', ‘thumbnail’)[0].getAttribute(“url”);
} else {
var mediathumb = item.getElementsByTagName(‘media:thumbnail’)[0].getAttribute(“url”);
};

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