Is there a cross-browser onload event when clicking the back button?

Question

For all major browsers (except IE), the JavaScript onload event doesn’t fire when the page loads as a result of a back button operation — it only fires when the

Answer 1

for the people who don't want to use the whole jquery library i extracted the implementation in separate code. It's only 0,4 KB big.

You can find the code, together with a german tutorial in this wiki: http://www.easy-coding.de/wiki/html-ajax-und-co/onload-event-cross-browser-kompatibler-domcontentloaded.html