Gaya/QueryLoader2 — pull request #68 by whatsnewsisyphus (2013-10-22 20:40:27+00:00)
Title: Bug squash: the loader hangs, sometimes cleared on refresh

http://api.jquery.com/element-selector/
You can target elements by their tag alone, < tag /> way of targeting will fail when loading images with non-xhtml strict (ie. that do not have closing slash) tags.