David,

because this is something different.  I don't remember details right
now, but it should be something like the HTMLElement on which your
inline listener is installed.

yours,
anton.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:19 PM, David Xanatos
<[email protected]> wrote:
> So the global object is always window?
> But why alert(window == this) tells me
> false?
>
> David
>
> On 31 Mrz., 15:13, Anton Muhin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:39 PM, David Xanatos
>>
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Cool, thanks for the answer,
>>
>> > So this with statement allows me to have inside the called function a
>> > "this" made up of multiple objects.
>>
>> Not quite, it's a special chain of objects which are used to resolve
>> identifiers.  http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/ecmascript/chapter-4-scope-chain/
>> is a good text about it.
>>
>> > But, how does it work with alert this is a function of window, but
>> > windows is not been point in such with thing ?
>>
>> alert is defined on the global object (and window is just an alias to
>> it), so it's always accessible unless shadowed.
>>
>> yours,
>> anton.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > David
>>
>> > On 29 Mrz., 20:43, Anton Muhin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> David,
>>
>> >> As per the spec, DOM bindings build a special context chain for that,
>> >> seehttp://codesearch.google.com./codesearch/p?hl=en#OAMlx_jo-ck/src/thir...
>> >> for more details.
>>
>> >> hth and yours,
>> >> anton.
>>
>> >> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:34 PM, David Xanatos
>>
>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > When I am in a event like onlaod="alert('bla'); this.alert('blup')"
>> >> > the this is not longer 'window' but the html object the event is in.
>> >> > But strangely I call call any alert and use document as if the global
>> >> > object still would be the window, but alert(window == this) tells me
>> >> > false :/
>>
>> >> > I would like to use this behavioure in a V8 C++ project, so i wanted
>> >> > to ask how is this "superopsition" of the global object with an other
>> >> > object achieved?
>>
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