And that's indeed the only place on Web world where `self` makes sense: it's referring to the frame (scoped) context its running, not to the `top` (global) tab wrapper.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.org> wrote: > Just for historians who might not know, when I did ur-JS in 1995, I made > multiple names for the global, in part because event handlers (which > prefigured nested functions in general, and added with-like DOM object > scoping -- a regret); but also in part because <a target="_self"> was a > thing in Netscape 2. > > /be > > > Boris Zbarsky wrote: > >> On 4/17/15 10:55 AM, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: >> >>> We have `window` in DOM land, `self` in Workers >>> >> >> We have `self` in DOM land too, so you can consistently use `self` across >> Window and Workers. >> >> and `global` in most common server side JS engines >>> >> >> Sounds like they should add `self`. ;) >> >> -Boris >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> es-discuss@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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