How to fill a Javascript object literal with many static key/value pairs efficiently?

Question

The typical way of creating a Javascript object is the following:

var map = new Object();
map[myKey1] = myObj1;
map[myKey2] = myObj2;

I need to

Answer 1

It works fine with the object literal notation:

var map = { key : { "aaa", "rrr" }, 
            key2: { "bbb", "ppp" } // trailing comma leads to syntax error in IE!
          }

Btw, the common way to instantiate arrays

var array = [];
// directly with values:
var array = [ "val1", "val2", 3 /*numbers may be unquoted*/, 5, "val5" ];

and objects

var object = {};

Also you can do either:

obj.property     // this is prefered but you can also do
obj["property"]  // this is the way to go when you have the keyname stored in a var

var key = "property";
obj[key] // is the same like obj.property