title: Preloading images on IE7-IE8
body: <p><strong>I tried two different techniques</strong>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>url = 'http://domain.com/image.gif';
  $('body').append('&lt;img style="display:none" src="'+url+'" /&gt;');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and</p>
  
  <pre><code>image = Image(1,1);
  image.src = 'http://domain.com/image.gif';
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Images get preloaded in IE6, Chrome 8, Firefox 3.5+</p>
  
  <p><strong>but cannot get these to work in IE8 or IE7</strong></p>
  
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  <p><strong>Any ideas?</strong></p>