方法(或函数)可以在不是它们设计使用的类型的对象上调用。这对于在自定义对象上调用本机(快速)方法非常有用。

var listNodes = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
listNodes.sort(function(a, b){ ... });

这段代码崩溃是因为listNodes不是数组

Array.prototype.sort.apply(listNodes, [function(a, b){ ... }]);

这段代码之所以有效，是因为listNodes定义了足够多的类数组属性(length，[]运算符)供sort()使用。

生成器和迭代器(仅适用于Firefox 2+和Safari)。

function fib() {
  var i = 0, j = 1;
  while (true) {
    yield i;
    var t = i;
    i = j;
    j += t;
  }
}

var g = fib();
for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
  document.write(g.next() + "<br>\n");
}

The function containing the yield keyword is a generator. When you call it, its formal parameters are bound to actual arguments, but its body isn't actually evaluated. Instead, a generator-iterator is returned. Each call to the generator-iterator's next() method performs another pass through the iterative algorithm. Each step's value is the value specified by the yield keyword. Think of yield as the generator-iterator version of return, indicating the boundary between each iteration of the algorithm. Each time you call next(), the generator code resumes from the statement following the yield. In normal usage, iterator objects are "invisible"; you won't need to operate on them explicitly, but will instead use JavaScript's for...in and for each...in statements to loop naturally over the keys and/or values of objects.

var objectWithIterator = getObjectSomehow();

for (var i in objectWithIterator)
{
  document.write(objectWithIterator[i] + "<br>\n");
}

使用函数。Apply用于指定函数将作用的对象:

假设你有一个类

function myClass(){
 this.fun = function(){
   do something;
 };
}

如果之后你这样做了:

var a = new myClass();
var b = new myClass();

myClass.fun.apply(b); //this will be like b.fun();

您甚至可以指定一个调用参数数组作为第二个参数

看这个:https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Global_Objects/Function/apply

我最喜欢的技巧是使用apply对对象的方法执行回调，并维护正确的“this”变量。

function MakeCallback(obj, method) {
    return function() {
        method.apply(obj, arguments);
    };
}

var SomeClass = function() { 
     this.a = 1;
};
SomeClass.prototype.addXToA = function(x) {
     this.a = this.a + x;
};

var myObj = new SomeClass();

brokenCallback = myObj.addXToA;
brokenCallback(1); // Won't work, wrong "this" variable
alert(myObj.a); // 1


var myCallback = MakeCallback(myObj, myObj.addXToA);
myCallback(1);  // Works as expected because of apply
alert(myObj.a); // 2

也许对某些人来说有点明显…

安装Firebug并使用console.log("hello")。这比使用随机alert();好多了，我记得几年前我经常这样做。

你可以在任何对象上执行一个对象的方法，不管它是否有这个方法。当然，它可能并不总是有效(如果方法假设对象具有它没有的东西)，但它可能非常有用。例如:

function(){
    arguments.push('foo') // This errors, arguments is not a proper array and has no push method
    Array.prototype.push.apply(arguments, ['foo']) // Works!
}