window.toString.call is undefined in IE8

Question

When you run:

window.toString.call(\"\")

everything\'s fine in FF/CH but in IE8 you get a script error. Investigating a bit more it turned

Answer 1

NickFitz is correct, the toString method on the host object that you are finding is purely so that if you did

alert(window);

you would get the text [object]

All that the javascript method toString() used in your examples would acheive is to make a string from a string so the correct way to do what you are trying is;

var a =new String ("");

or simply

var b = "";

or if you really want to be silly;

var b = "".toString();