Strings are not object then why do they have properties?

Question

Code like this:

var str = \"Hello StackOverflow !\";
alert(typeof str);

gives me string as result. This means strings are not

Answer 1

Strings are pure objects: http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-15.5

So the question is, what does the typeof operator. It simply acts according to its ECMA specification:

http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-11.4.3