Question

In a normal browser javascript environment, you always have the global window object to fall back on but is there a default accessible global object for the Microsoft JScript Runtime or at least a way to check for one?

Answer 1

According to MSDN, there is a Global object, however a quick test reveals that it is not directly accessible:

WScript.Echo(Global.escape('hello world')); // Error: 'Global' is undefined

What you can do, however, is take advantage of the fact that this in a global context refers to the global object and save the reference to a variable:

var __global__ = this;
WScript.Echo(__global__.escape('hello world')); // happy times