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?
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.