A condom for basic console logging.

UTIL.console.js

/**
 * @name UTIL.console
 * UTIL.console acts as a proxy to native console, using window.status for ie6/7.
 * For when you forget some console calls in your source and don't want the output
 * shown in staging/production environments. We have enough stuff to remember, eh.
 * Logging defaults to only being enabled on localhost (or other logic).
 * 
 * @example
 * UTIL.console.log("Hello", "World"); // outputs "Hello World"
 * UTIL.console.disable();
 * UTIL.console.log("Goodbye"); // no output
*/
var UTIL = (function (global, parent, enable) {
  var self = parent.console = parent.console || {},
      methodNames = ['log', 'info', 'warn', 'error', 'debug', 'dir'],
      fnEmpty = function(){};
  /**
   *  Disallows console logging methods from producing output.
   */
  self.disable = function(){
    for(var i = 0, len = methodNames.length; i < len; i++){
      self[methodNames[i]] = fnEmpty;
    }
  };
/**
 *  Allows console logging methods to produce output.
 */
  self.enable = function(){
    for(var i = 0, len = methodNames.length; i < len; i++){
      if('console' in global){
        if(methodNames[i] in global.console){
          // wrapping function since Chrome didn't like direct method borrowing.
          (function(method){
            self[method] = function(){
              global.console[method].apply(global.console, arguments);
            };
          })(methodNames[i]);
        } else {
          // console doesn't support this method
          self[methodNames[i]] = fnEmpty;
        }
      } else if('status' in global){
        // Output to the window status for browsers without console.
        self[methodNames[i]] = function(){
          global.status = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments).join(' ');
        };
      } else {
        // No console, no status--stub it out.
        self[methodNames[i]] = fnEmpty;
      }
    }
  };
  
  enable ? self.enable() : self.disable();
  
  return parent; 
}(window.top, UTIL || {}, /localhost/.test(window.location.hostname)));
// Enabled only on localhost by default