For those interested, the reason the old google analytics snippet wasn't using this instead of document.write:
There is an edgecase bug in IE6 that causes a dialog to blow up… under some security settings (unsure if they are default) when requesting form the non-'ssl' subdomain
So looks as if it's fine to use if you're not supporting IE6.
The new GA snippet uses different domains for the two modes so it can't be used.
There is an edgecase bug in IE6 that causes a dialog to blow up… under some security settings (unsure if they are default) when requesting form the non-'ssl' subdomain
So looks as if it's fine to use if you're not supporting IE6.
The new GA snippet uses different domains for the two modes so it can't be used.