.load() was working fine, but for some reason it's not in Chrome now (presumably some kind of update). I'm on Chrome 5.0.375.55. I've isolated the problem to this:
index.htm
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#reader').load('test.htm');
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id='reader'>Loading ...</div>
</body>
</html>
test.htm
<h1>Loaded successfully</h1>
This works on Firefox and IE, but on Chrome it replaces the contents of the #reader div with nothing.
Edit: I should add that I'm running this locally, and it's never going to be deployed on a web server.
Edit2: I've tried .load('file:///C:/path/to/test.htm') which works in FF but not Chrome.