Better GA init code

The official version fails if the document's first child is something like a comment. This tries to attach to <head> and, if that doesn't exist, falls back to body.
acdha · Dec 2, 2009 · b2b5a7c · b2b5a7c
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diff --git a/google_analytics/templates/google_analytics/analytics_template.html b/google_analytics/templates/google_analytics/analytics_template.html
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 var ga = document.createElement('script');
 ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
 ga.setAttribute('async', 'true');
-document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(ga);
+
+// Avoid problems if the document doesn't actually contain a HEAD element:
+var container = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0] || document.body;
+container.appendChild(ga);
 })();
 </script>