Comments on: Debugging with $.log() or log()

By: Paul Irish

Paul Irish — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:52:24 +0000

James,

Great posts lately.

I was using a similar script (with console.log.apply), but saw that Safari and Chrome’s consoles don’t play nicely with it.

This seemed to be an ugly but functional cross browser solution:

window.debug = function(q,w,e,r,t,y){  
  try { console && console.log && console.log.apply(console,arguments); } 
  catch(e){ console && console.log && console.log(q,w,e,r,t,y); }
}

By: James

James — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:46:34 +0000

@Balazs, good point, just changed it.

By: Balazs Endresz

Balazs Endresz — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:59:40 +0000

Hey, why are you using an internal undocumented object to store data? You can store the log on the $.log function itself!

$.log = $.fn.log = function(o) {
  //...
  $.log.cache[$.log.cache.length] = arguments.length &gt; 1 ? arguments : o || this;
}
 
$.log.cache=[];

Anyway, some useful stuff again!

By: Joe McCann

Joe McCann — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:21:37 +0000

Nice, will be using this instead of my own lil snippet while developing jQuery plugins.