If you update jshint to 0.9.1 and run jake on cordova.js you will notice a lot more errors.
This is due to an update in jshint that caused a regression in the rules we were getting a lot more errors for a rule we had turned off: https://github.com/jshint/node-jshint/issues/131 I have since updated our .jshintrc (https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-cordova-js.git;a=commit;h=7df5b6940808f20f400dfc9d827caf286202e314) so you don't go attempting to fix all the errors like I did. Gord
