javascript - "alert" is not defined when running www.jshint.com

Question

I fixed this by simply adding var alert; However, is this what I should be doing to get the pesky error message to go away? Here is the fix. Here is the fail on www.jshint.com.

I'm trying to learn from the error it throws..not necessarily make them go away.

(function () {

"use strict";

var alert;  //  added this in to fix

function initialize_page()
  {
  alert ("hi");
  }

addEventListener('load', initialize_page);

})();

Answer 1

Instead of

alert('message')

you should use

window.alert('message');

Because this method is defined in window object.

This of course assumes you have browser option set to true in your .jshintrc, so this way jshint will know window object is exposed.

"browser"       : true,     // Standard browser globals e.g. window, document.

*The same thing happens with confirm().