Dashcode Podcast Widget coding

I saw that Anomac had a problem with a Dashcode created widget, so I thought I would try:
I created an RSS feed with no problem, but I am less successful with the podcast one. When I use Run, it always comes up with the same fault:
"Object (result of expression load) does not allow calls" and refers to podcast.html, line 22
That line shows me this"
<body onload="load();" id="body">
so I guess that something is missing in the parentheses. Could anyone make a suggestion, please?

Hello G.M.C, I'm not familiar with enhanced podcasts or widgets but do you see any way to do something like this:
window.size.x = image.size.x
window.size.y = image.size.y
(or maybe canvas.size etc)

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