Website with JS doesn't work in IE9 until the Developer Tools is activated

Question

I\'m developing a complex website that heavily leverages jQuery and a number of scripts. On load of the site, none of my scripting is working (though I can confirm that othe

Answer 1

The console.log wrapper that I used was not sufficient to detect the console in IE9. Here's the wrapper that works from a related question on SE:

function logError(msg){
    try {
        console.log(msg);
    } catch (error) {
        throw new Error(msg);
    }
}

function log(msg){
    try {
        console.log(msg);
    } catch (error) { }
}

A proper test for the availability of the console object would be: if (typeof console === "undefined" || typeof console.log === "undefined")