I'm actually getting faster results in Firefox for typeof in that
particular case.

On Jun 22, 8:55 am, jdalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't see the harm in adding the second condition "element
> instanceof String"
> you could use :
>
> if(element && element.constructor == String)
>
> This works for both "foo" and new String("foo");
>
> I find that it is faster than using typeOf.
> I have made very JavaScript heavy applications and noticed that using
> "typeOf value == 'Object'" and others is slow
> compared to myObject.constructor, especially when called a few
> thousand times.
>
> Also I don't buy the "it hasn't been fixed since the beginning, so why
> fix it now?" argument.


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