As a nonprofessional, this is too much info for me, but the details are at: http://www.w3.org/TR/Window/#dfn-self-attribute http://www.w3.org/TR/Window/#dfn-self-attribute
You won't find it in the ECMA spec because it's part of the DOM D Daniel MacDonald wrote: > > self refers to the current window in the DOM > > D > > > Jörn Zaefferer wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> the infamous ppk wrote in his blog: >> >> "I've learnt one other trick for distinguishing newbies and pros: ask >> them the difference between |this| and |self|. Usually people who just >> claim to be excellent scripters don't know the answer, while real pros >> do." >> >> So obviously I am not an excellent scripter, because I don't have any >> idea on the difference between those two. And I prefer discussing iton >> this instead of crawling through the ECMA spec. >> >> Anyone? >> >> -- >> Jörn Zaefferer >> >> http://bassistance.de >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> jQuery mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://jquery.com/discuss/ >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/jQuery-newbies--tf3398728.html#a9464277 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
