Why is Chrome's onerror event for the img element only fired once?

Question

Why is Chrome is only calling the onerror event for the img element one time when all other browsers (IE7,8,9, FF, Opera, and Safari) all call it repeatedly?

Is ther

Answer 1

I've tried the ways metioned above, setAttribute('src', null) has a side effect, ie, add another request.

Finally, I use

    setTimeout(function(){ imgElement.src = 'http://xxxx'; }, 0)

, and this works!

See the jsfiddle for example.