From: FAQ server on 3 Aug 2010 19:00 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FAQ Topic - What is a host object? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A host object is any object supplied by the host environment to complete the execution environment of ECMAScript. A host object is not part of the ECMAScript implementation, but is exposed to the ECMAScript implementation. A host object may be implemented as a native ECMAScript object, however this is not required. For example, Internet Explorer implements many scriptable DOM objects as ActiveX Objects, often resulting in unexpected errors. Availability and behavior of a host object depends on the host environment. For example, in a browser, `XMLHttpRequest` might be available, with or without standard or proprietary features or events. Windows Script Host object model has the `WScript` object available. For information on a particular host object, consult the pertinent documentation available for the implementation(s). For web browsers, this usually includes the w3c specifications as well as documentation for that browser. See also: <URL: http://jibbering.com/faq/notes/code-guidelines/#hostObjects> <URL: http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/feature-detection-state-of-the-art-browser-scripting> The complete comp.lang.javascript FAQ is at http://jibbering.com/faq/ -- The sendings of these daily posts are proficiently hosted by http://www.pair.com.
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