在创建新“对象”时，括号是可选的。

function Animal () {

}

var animal = new Animal();
var animal = new Animal;

同样的事情。

Javascript在函数中有静态变量:

function someFunction(){
  var Static = arguments.callee;
  Static.someStaticVariable = (Static.someStaticVariable || 0) + 1;
  alert(Static.someStaticVariable);
}
someFunction() //Alerts 1
someFunction() //Alerts 2
someFunction() //Alerts 3

它在Objects内部也有静态变量:

function Obj(){
  this.Static = arguments.callee;
}
a = new Obj();
a.Static.name = "a";
b = new Obj();
alert(b.Static.name); //Alerts b

为变量分配默认值

你可以在赋值表达式中使用逻辑运算符||来提供一个默认值:

var a = b || c;

只有当b为false (if为null, false, undefined, 0，空字符串或NaN)时，变量a才会得到c的值，否则a将得到b的值。

这通常在函数中很有用，当你想在没有提供参数的情况下给参数一个默认值:

function example(arg1) {
  arg1 || (arg1 = 'default value');
}

事件处理程序中的IE回退示例:

function onClick(e) {
    e || (e = window.event);
}

以下语言特性已经伴随我们很长时间了，所有JavaScript实现都支持它们，但直到ECMAScript第5版才成为规范的一部分:

调试器语句

§12.15调试器语句描述

这个语句允许你通过以下方式在代码中添加断点:

// ...
debugger;
// ...

如果有调试器存在或处于活动状态，则会导致调试器立即在这一行上中断。

否则，如果调试器不存在或不活动，则此语句没有可观察到的效果。

多行字符串字面值

在§7.8.4字符串字面量中描述

var str = "This is a \
really, really \
long line!";

您必须小心，因为\旁边的字符必须是行结束符，例如，如果在\后面有空格，代码将看起来完全相同，但它将引发SyntaxError。

下面是一些有趣的事情:

Comparing NaN with anything (even NaN) is always false, that includes ==, < and >. NaN Stands for Not a Number but if you ask for the type it actually returns a number. Array.sort can take a comparator function and is called by a quicksort-like driver (depends on implementation). Regular expression "constants" can maintain state, like the last thing they matched. Some versions of JavaScript allow you to access $0, $1, $2 members on a regex. null is unlike anything else. It is neither an object, a boolean, a number, a string, nor undefined. It's a bit like an "alternate" undefined. (Note: typeof null == "object") In the outermost context, this yields the otherwise unnameable [Global] object. Declaring a variable with var, instead of just relying on automatic declaration of the variable gives the runtime a real chance of optimizing access to that variable The with construct will destroy such optimzations Variable names can contain Unicode characters. JavaScript regular expressions are not actually regular. They are based on Perl's regexs, and it is possible to construct expressions with lookaheads that take a very, very long time to evaluate. Blocks can be labeled and used as the targets of break. Loops can be labeled and used as the target of continue. Arrays are not sparse. Setting the 1000th element of an otherwise empty array should fill it with undefined. (depends on implementation) if (new Boolean(false)) {...} will execute the {...} block Javascript's regular expression engine's are implementation specific: e.g. it is possible to write "non-portable" regular expressions.

[更新了一点，以回应良好的评论;请参阅评论]

在Crockford的《Javascript: The Good Parts》中也提到过:

parseInt()是危险的。如果你给它一个字符串而不告诉它正确的进制，它可能会返回意想不到的数字。例如，parseInt('010')返回8，而不是10。传递一个base给parseInt可以使它正确工作:

parseInt('010') // returns 8! (in FF3)
parseInt('010', 10); // returns 10 because we've informed it which base to work with.

您可以动态地重新定义运行时环境的大部分内容，例如修改Array构造函数或定义undefined。并不是说你应该这样做，但它可以是一个强大的功能。

一种稍微不那么危险的形式是向现有对象添加helper方法。例如，你可以让IE6在数组上“原生”支持indexOf。