function fadeIn(obj) {
  setOpacity(obj, 0);
  obj.style.visibility = 'visible';
  baseFadeIn(obj,0);
}

function setOpacity(obj, opacity) {
  opacity = (opacity == 100)?99.999:opacity;
  
  // IE/Win
  obj.style.filter = "alpha(opacity:"+opacity+")";
  
  // Safari<1.2, Konqueror
  obj.style.KHTMLOpacity = opacity/100;
  
  // Older Mozilla and Firefox
  obj.style.MozOpacity = opacity/100;
  
  // Safari 1.2, newer Firefox and Mozilla, CSS3
  obj.style.opacity = opacity/100;
}

function baseFadeIn(obj,opacity) {
    if (opacity <= 100) {
      setOpacity(obj, opacity);
      opacity += 5;
      window.setTimeout(
      	function() {
      		baseFadeIn(obj, opacity+5)
      	}
      	, 10);
    }
}

window.onload = function() {fadeIn(document.getElementById('photoid'))}