as of 5/9/2013 running

javascript:$(location).attr("href")

in the address bar of IE browser at jquery.com throws exception.

The exception happens on the line 2631 of the non-minified version of jquery-1.9.1,

the function receives the self.location object as elem, and it doesn't have getAttribute method, thus failing.

// href/src property should get the full normalized URL (#10299/#12915)

jQuery.each([ "href", "src" ], function( i, name ) {

jQuery.propHooks[ name ] = {

get: function( elem ) {

return elem.getAttribute( name, 4 );

}

};

});

It may be arguable if this is a bug or improper use of the method .attr(), but I inherited the code that din't throw any such exceptions with jquery-1.6.1