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Tony R
Tony R

Reputation: 11524

Firebug Lite makes my site work in IE

So, I have a heavy page that does a ton of JavaScript and has some huge SVG elements. It's been working great in Webkit/Gecko, but I am now testing in IE and the page doesn't load (well, it loads but most of my JavaScript never seems to run).

First thing I did was drop Firebug Lite into the page to see what's happening, but after I did that, the page loads and functions perfectly in IE! However I don't see the little bug icon to get to the console.

Since I still don't have a console, I'm having trouble figuring out what's happening. Perhaps Firebug defined some variables (console?) that my page needed? Can anyone give some guidance on how to proceed here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 299

Answers (2)

Tony R
Tony R

Reputation: 11524

Okay I think I figured this out. console is only defined in IE8+ IF the developer console has been opened and the page refreshed. So including Firebug Lite probably made my page work by itself defining console.

So I'll just have to comment out my console.log statements when the page is public.

Upvotes: 0

j08691
j08691

Reputation: 207901

I'll make this an answer since my comment seemed to solve your problem.

If you have uncommented console.log code when running in IE, IE will bark errors at you and fail to properly run the script. Opening a console (IE or Firebug Lite) typically allows the code to run, however you obviously cannot count on your visitors doing this, therefore it's always best to remove or comment out all console.log() calls when releasing production code.

Upvotes: 2

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