This is my contribution to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2652816/what-is-the-difference-between-document-location-href-and-document-location Here is an example of the practical significance of the difference and how it can bite you if you don’t realize it (document.location being an object and document.location.href being a string): We ...

At ClipFlair Studio (a Silverlight app), I had some time ago implemented a confirmation warning upon user trying to close the webpage (when it was running inside the web browser), which then had stopped functioning. It seems at some refactoring I had added code like the following: var activityView = activityView(); and it was failing […]