'console' is undefined error for Internet Explorer

Question

I\'m using Firebug and have some statements like:

console.log(\"...\");

in my page. In IE8 (probably earlier versions too) I get script err

Answer 1

I am only using console.log in my code. So I include a very short 2 liner

var console = console || {};
console.log = console.log || function(){};