Thanks everyone for the comments, especially Ross for the detailed notes on Flickr’s implementation. It’s great to hear real world experience and alternative ideas around the best way to use techniques like this.

Thank you also Mathias and Julian for the jQuery tip. I’m sure I’m not the only one who misses out on some of the features that land in every new version of jQuery.

Scott: When I get a chance I’ll look back at my notes and see what I can find about Firefox. I stopped investigating removing the image with JavaScript when I thought there were no simple workarounds for the other browsers…