Yes, I admit that I added the curly braces unnecessarily. However, jsLint will throw a fit if you omit them, so there's an argument to be made that always putti

Yes, I admit that I added the curly braces unnecessarily. However, jsLint will throw a fit if you omit them, so there's an argument to be made that always putting your conditionals in curly braces is a best practice. Certainly, both styles are common in JavaScript, and they'll come out of the minifier the same way in the end.