Question

Firefox has no problem with

var logger = window.console.log,  // breaks Safari but not Firefox

but Safari gives a Type Error the first place I try to use logger(). Note the snippet below.

I went ahead and replaced all my logger()’s with window.console.log() to get rid of the error.

I don’t understand why Safari doesn’t like it and why it calls it a type error.

Error

TypeError: Type error

Snippet

/*log
**
**
**
*/
NS.log = function (arg) {
    if (window.console) {
        var logger = window.console.log,  // breaks Safari but not Firefox
            str1 = Object.prototype.toString.call(arg);
// ... snip

Answer 1

This should work:

var logger = window.console.log.bind(window.console)