"To repeat myself: Just because Crockford suggests it, doesn't make it a good idea." I did not suggest anything like this. My point was that Crockford pretty m

"To repeat myself: Just because Crockford suggests it, doesn't make it a good idea." I did not suggest anything like this. My point was that Crockford pretty much enumerates every sensible way to do inheritance in JS, with the conclusion quite similar to yours - Crockford suggests (in fact: describes) many things, so don't draw too much from this. Btw, he suggests the regular constructor too: http://javascript.crockford.com/inheritance.html http://javascript.crockford.com/inheritance.html