JavaScript Design

Summary

This chapter has taken the first major step in introducing the concepts of objects in JavaScript. As was seen, objects exist in a hierarchy in JavaScript, with the window object always being at the top of the heap. Everything else is a property of the window object in one way or another. Objects can be created by the designer/developer to add a needed element to a script, and these objects may have their own properties and values. Likewise, many of the built-in objects have their own properties that provide useful data for fine-tuning and customizing a script to address different configurations that viewers may have.

As you will see in the next chapter, objects are driven by their methods— functions associated with a particular object ...