>>As far as I'm concerned if it's not in the W3C specification (which is what the MSDN link above is derived from) then it doesn't exist.
>>Maybe some browser supports it but.........
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>>If there was such an event what did you want to do in the eventhandler anyway?
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>When a URL is assigned to the .src property, I would need to adjust the browser status text to simulate the Waiting for http://www....

Couldn't you just do that in the code that sets the .src property ?