Is there a way to log to console without breaking code under IE?

Question

I\'m trying to use console.log to put some logging into the javascript side of my program. I noticed, though, that unless the dev console is open in IE, JS basically stops worki

Answer 1

I use this snippet myself

if (! ('console' in window) ) {
var names = ['log', 'debug', 'info', 'warn', 'error', 'assert', 'dir', 'dirxml', 'group', 'groupEnd', 'time', 'timeEnd', 'count', 'trace', 'profile', 'profileEnd'];
window.console = {};
for (var i = 0; i < names.length; ++i) window.console[names[i]] = function() {};
}else {
/*if it exists but doesn't contain all the same methods....silly ie*/
var names = ['log', 'debug', 'info', 'warn', 'error', 'assert', 'dir', 'dirxml', 'group', 'groupEnd', 'time', 'timeEnd', 'count', 'trace', 'profile', 'profileEnd'];
for (var i = 0; i < names.length; ++i) if(!window.console[names[i]])window.console[names[i]] = function() {};
};