I'm not necessarily advocating this as good practice, just reporting the behavior.

Might duplicate #10010.

http://jsfiddle.net/ysd6U/1/

Expected behavior: Separate alert for each element that matches

#things li

Browsers

Chrome: PASS

Firefox: PASS

IE10: PASS

IE9: FAIL

IE8: FAIL

function Thing(el) {
    $(document).ready(function() {
        alert($(el).attr('class'));
    });
}

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#things li').each(function() {
        var thing = new Thing(this);
    });
});