I'm just starting to deepen my knowledge on that topic. I'm was just reading this article (and I'm not understanding all of it):

http://alistapart.com/article/getoutbindingsituations

(referred from this page:)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/962033/what-underlies-this-javascript-idiom-var-self-this

So I'm less ignorant than before, but still not as enlightened as I'd like to.

I've run into some "this" issues before, and I usually solve them by explicitly copying the value of this to a variable - it also avoids ambiguities... example:


function myClass() {
     var myClassContext = this;
     this.someProperty = "nice";
     this.myMethod = function(arg) {
         // some code
         someElem.onclick = function(el) {
              el.setAttribute('class', myClassContext.someProperty);
         }
     }
}

So, here I assigned the value of this to myClassProperty, and I can further use it without running into ambiguous situations or errors.
Another thing that can help is strict mode.

That's usually the type trouble I may run into and how I solve it. I guess I don't do a lot of passing around function pointers.

But I'd like to understand how it all works, and have more insight on the topic, and as I research it, I'm wondering if there are any JavaScript expert here who have a say on the topic...

So, does a JavaScript function simply inherit the context within which it's called? Or is there more to it?