[dnc]

One portion of Douglas Crockford's book "JavaScript: The Good Parts" describes invocation patterns thoroughly.

It might be that the author of the post was inspired by this book. Since he hasn't mentioned it, I did it in case someone wants to know more about the topic (and doesn't know about the book).

[jszen]

He does actually refer to Crockfords book roughly half way through.

[dnc]

Nope, he doesn't. :)

[davesims]

He does, but it's indirect. In the article he says: "There is a remedy which was championed by Douglas Crockford: Augment Object with a create method that accomplishes what the constructor invocation pattern tries to do."

That sentence contains a link to another page on OP's site which at the top says "Douglas Crockford's wonderful book JavaScript: The Good Parts does a fanastic job of explaining this topic, and I urge the interested reader to buy his book."

[dnc]

Thanks for pointing it out. I didn't see it. Your comment motivated me to look at the whole post about JavaScript prototypes again and read it. It is very good, I refreshed my knowledge about Object.prototype, Function.prototype design.