Determine image src in onload and onerror event handlers in IE

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Published on 2010-05-08T04:23:33Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 4:28 UTC
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How can I determine the image src of the image that triggered the event in the onload and onerror event handlers in IE? This example code I threw together:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function loadImages() {
   var goodImage = new Image();
   var missingImage = new Image();

   $(goodImage).bind('load', function(event){
      $("#log").append( $(event.target).attr('src') + ' WAS FOUND <br>');
   });

   $(missingImage).bind('load', function(event){
      $("#log").append( $(event.target).attr('src') + ' WAS FOUND <br>' );
   });

   $(goodImage).bind('error', function(event){
      $("#log").append( $(event.target).attr('src') + ' IS MISSING <br>');
   });

   $(missingImage).bind('error', function(event){
      $("#log").append( $(event.target).attr('src') + ' IS MISSING <br>');
   });

  goodImage.src = 'GOOD-IMAGE.GIF'; // this image exists
  missingImage.src = 'MISSING-IMAGE.GIF'; // this image doesn't exist
}

</script>
</head>
<body onload="loadImages();">
<div id="log"></div>

works in FF but in IE8 it prints out undefined for the $(event.target).attr('src') part. I thought jQuery was supposed to normalize the event object for IE so that it acted like other browsers? I've tried a number of permutations but haven't been able to get anything to work in IE8.

Anyway if anyone has a suggestion on how to figure out the image src in the onload and onerror event handlers that works in IE I would really appreciate it. Or even how to figure out after the images have loaded which have loaded and which haven't (but not graphically - I need to generate an array containing the filenames of the images that didn't load). Thanks!

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