Facebook Share doesn't pick up title / description meta tags that are changed after page load.

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Published on 2010-04-17T00:54:36Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 1:03 UTC
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Apparently Facebook Share doesn't pick up the title / description meta tags that are changed (via JavaScript) after the page load. It basically use the meta tags that are available upon load.

This is a simple example.

The link will change the title / description meta tags upon click. You can confirm that using Firebug.
Click the f|Share button: Facebook still always shows "A title that is available upon page load." and "A description that is available upon page load."

Anybody knows how to fix this?

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