IE-Safe console.log

iesafeconsolelog.js

/*

  Some versions of IE have a bug that stops applications working if they use console.log and the developer window is closed.
  This is obviously a fairly big issue, especially because developers will often have the dev window open, meaning that they
  struggle to recreate the problems their users report.
  
  The answer is not to check for IE, but to check that console.log actually exists before invoking it.  You can do this with
  if conditionals, but this isn't the most elegant solution.  Here's mine.

*/

console&&console.log&&console.log('stuff to log');

// Granted, it's a bit long, so you can always use:

console = console || {};
"function"!=typeof console.log&&(console.log=function(){return null});

// ...thus rendering console as an object if it doesn't exist (relieving us of any warning level errors caused by using it) and 
// rendering console.log as a function that will do nothing.