Generate window.console polyfill

ReadMe.md

This gist creates a simpel Console polyfill piece of code to add to projects where IE8 will visit your site. It will create a simple console object on window object avoiding any forgotten console.log for instance. It should be run on a browser which supports console object, say in the developer toolbar. It wil then generate a line of javascript code for you to paste into the website.

EXAMPLEoutputJavascriptConsolePolyfill.js

if (typeof window.console==='undefined') window.console = {'ver':'Fri Feb 07 2014 16:44:36 GMT+0100 (CET)','debug':function(){},'error':function(){},'info':function(){},'log':function(){},'warn':function(){},'dir':function(){},'dirxml':function(){},'table':function(){},'trace':function(){},'assert':function(){},'count':function(){},'markTimeline':function(){},'profile':function(){},'profileEnd':function(){},'time':function(){},'timeEnd':function(){},'timeStamp':function(){},'timeline':function(){},'timelineEnd':function(){},'group':function(){},'groupCollapsed':function(){},'groupEnd':function(){},'clear':function(){}}

generateJavascriptConsoleObjectPolyfill.js

var s = "if (typeof window.console==='undefined') window.console = {'ver':'"+new Date().toString()+"'";
for(a in console) {
  var v=console[a];
  if (typeof v==="function") {
    s+=",'"+a+"':function(){}";
  }
};
s+="}";