在PHP中，字符串“0”是假的(false-when-used-in-boolean-context)。在JavaScript中，所有非空字符串都是真值。

技巧是==针对布尔值并不在布尔上下文中求值，它转换为数字，在字符串的情况下是通过解析为十进制来完成的。所以你得到0而不是truthiness boolean true。

这是一个非常糟糕的语言设计，这也是我们尽量不使用不幸的==操作符的原因之一。请使用===代替。

The "if" expression tests for truthiness, while the double-equal tests for type-independent equivalency. A string is always truthy, as others here have pointed out. If the double-equal were testing both of its operands for truthiness and then comparing the results, then you'd get the outcome you were intuitively assuming, i.e. ("0" == true) === true. As Doug Crockford says in his excellent JavaScript: the Good Parts, "the rules by which [== coerces the types of its operands] are complicated and unmemorable.... The lack of transitivity is alarming." It suffices to say that one of the operands is type-coerced to match the other, and that "0" ends up being interpreted as a numeric zero, which is in turn equivalent to false when coerced to boolean (or false is equivalent to zero when coerced to a number).

这都是因为ECMA规格…"0" == false，因为这里指定的规则http://ecma262-5.com/ELS5_HTML.htm#Section_11.9.3…if('0')的结果为true，因为这里指定的规则http://ecma262-5.com/ELS5_HTML.htm#Section_12.5

这是因为JavaScript在布尔上下文和代码中使用类型强制

if ("0") 

将在布尔上下文中被强制为true。

在Javascript中还有其他的真值，在布尔上下文中会被强制为真，因此执行if块:-

if (true)
if ({})
if ([])
if (42)
if ("0")
if ("false")
if (new Date())
if (-42)
if (12n)
if (3.14)
if (-3.14)
if (Infinity)
if (-Infinity)

在JS中，“==”符号不检查变量的类型。因此，“0”= 0 = false(在JS中为0 = false)，在这种情况下将返回true，但如果使用“===”，结果将为false。

当你使用"if"时，在以下情况下它将是"false":

[0, false, '', null, undefined, NaN] // null = undefined, 0 = false

So

if("0") = if( ("0" !== 0) && ("0" !== false) && ("0" !== "") && ("0" !== null) && ("0" !== undefined) && ("0" !== NaN) )
        = if(true && true && true && true && true && true)
        = if(true)

if (x) 

使用JavaScript内部的toBoolean (http://es5.github.com/#x9.2)强制x

x == false

使用内部tonnumber强制(http://es5.github.com/#x9.3)或对象的toPrimitive强制(http://es5.github.com/#x9.1)

详情见http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/truth-equality-and-javascript/