What's the difference between [removed] and [removed] in JavaScript?

Question

Should both of them reference the same object?

Answer 1

Actually I notice a difference in chrome between both , For example if you want to do a navigation to a sandboxed frame from a child frame then you can do this just with document.location but not with window.location

Answer 2

document.location.constructor === window.location.constructor is true.

It's because it's exactly the same object as you can see from document.location===window.location.

So there's no need to compare the constructor or any other property.

Answer 3

According to the W3C, they are the same. In reality, for cross browser safety, you should use window.location rather than document.location.

See: http://www.w3.org/TR/html/browsers.html#dom-location

Answer 4

Well yea, they are the same, but....!

window.location is not working on some Internet Explorer browsers.

Answer 5

Yes, they are the same. It's one of the many historical quirks in the browser JS API. Try doing:

window.location === document.location

Answer 6

window.location is read/write on all compliant browsers.

document.location is read-only in Internet Explorer (at least), but read/write in Gecko-based browsers (Firefox, SeaMonkey).