[jQuery] Problem with IE - Trying to append something to the 'body'

[jQuery] Problem with IE - Trying to append something to the 'body'


I trying to append some text to an html using jquery and it works very
well on FF, Safari and Chrome. On IE 6/8, it did not append even
putting the code inside $(document).ready().
Any ideas?
Cheers!
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://
www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/
libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js"</script>
<script>
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $('body').append('Shit!!!');
    });
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="form-action.php" method="post" name="f1"
target="myframe" id="f1">
<input type="text" name="textfield" id="textfield" />
<input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit" />
</form>
<iframe name="myframe" src="blank.php"></iframe>
</body>
</html>