diff --git a/lib/OpenLayers.js b/lib/OpenLayers.js
index c8f80cf6ae..a2f0463497 100644
--- a/lib/OpenLayers.js
+++ b/lib/OpenLayers.js
@@ -108,9 +108,18 @@ if (typeof(_OPENLAYERS_SFL_) == "undefined") {
     catch (e) { start=0; }
 
     for (var i = start; i < jsfiles.length; i++) {
-        var currentScriptTag = "<script src='" + host + jsfiles[i] + "'></script>"; 
-        allScriptTags += currentScriptTag;
+        if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
+            var currentScriptTag = "<script src='" + host + jsfiles[i] + "'></script>"; 
+            allScriptTags += currentScriptTag;
+        } else {
+            var s = document.createElement("script");
+            s.src = host + jsfiles[i];
+            var h = document.getElementsByTagName("head").length ? 
+                       document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0] : 
+                       document.body;
+            h.appendChild(s);
+        }
     }
-    document.write(allScriptTags);
+    if (allScriptTags) document.write(allScriptTags);
     })();
 }