[Laszlo-user] what does 'this' refer to inside a function?

[P T Withington]

On 2006-06-14, at 10:04 EDT, Neil Mix wrote:

>
>> I'm surprised there was not a warning that `parent` was undefined.
>> But maybe there is a global named `parent`.
>
> There is -- it's a reference to the window object that contains  
> this window.  For example, if we're code that's running within an  
> IFrame, 'parent' refers to the window object that embeds our  
> containing IFrame.  If we're in the 'top' window, parent ==  
> window.  So there's always a global value for 'parent'.

That's true in the DOM (and would be true in the dhtml runtime), but  
Sarah was talking about SWF.  I don't think there is a global parent  
in SWF, although it is plausible that somewhere in the app she was  
debugging a global parent was defined...