“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

Answer 1

Set "devel:true" in the Options. This enables things like Alert, console, etc.

See documentation here: http://jshint.com/docs/options/