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
>> 
>> 
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