Question

is there a “document” property named ssh? It’s a simple question. I’ve seen this in some code at work, but no one in the office wrote the code, so I’m stucked.

The line was document.ssh.firstPing(…)

firstPing was a method in the code, that is writen in js+php. But I’ve searched with eclipse throughout all the code and there is no ssh anywhere.

Answer 1

There’s no standard ssh property on the document object in the Javascript DOM bindings. If you’re loading Javascript libraries, they could always add one (one can add properties to document if one likes). For instance, this is perfectly valid:

document.foo = {
    bar: function() {
        alert("Hi there!");
    }
};

document.foo.bar(); // alerts "Hi there"

More on the standard bindings here.