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

OK, I tried this and it works in Firefox 3, Safari 3.1.1, and IE7 but not in Opera 9.52.
If you use the example shown below (based on palehorse's example), you get an alert box pop-up when the page first loads. But if you then go to another URL, and then hit the Back button to go back to this page, you don't get an alert box pop-up in Opera (but you do in the other browsers).

Anyway, I think this is close enough for now. Thanks everyone!

Test of the page load event and the Back button using jQuery