Using instance methods as callbacks for event handlers changes the scope of this from "My instance" to "Whatever just called the callback". So my code looks like this function MyObject() { this.doSomething = function() { ... } var self = this $('#foobar').bind('click', function(){ self.doSomethng() // this.doSomething() would not work here }) } It works, but is that the best way to do it? It looks

