[jQuery] Re: remove doesn't prevent a request for the image

[Dave Methvin]

I don't think it makes a difference whether the elements are in the
DOM or not; if you assign a src property the browser can start to
fetch the data. I've taken advantage of that before with "new Image()"
to do preloading. It's probably browser-dependent but in any case I'd
say it's outside the scope of jQuery.