“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

try passing window object in :

(function (global) {

"use strict";

var alert;  //  added this in to fix

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

addEventListener('load', initialize_page);

})(window);