I love Firebug for Firefox, but I really don't like debugging Javascript in IE.

I wrote this little console so that I can kind of see what's going on when scripts in IE don't behave the same way as in Firefox. It's inspired by one of my most favorite web development tools ever, Firebug, which is a Firefox extension.

It has three features:

1. Outputs messages from anywhere in your javascript code.
2. Provides a console to display the messages and evaluate Javascript expressions.
3. Has a history of all the Javascript expressions entered. You can navigate the history with the up and down arrows.

Download it: ie-console.js

Try it!. You don't need IE to try it out. However, the history feature doesn't work in Firefox.

Enter this into the console:

document.body.childNodes

Instructions

1. Download and save ie-console.js to your website
2. Include the script in your HTML like this:

   <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/ie-console.js"></script>

3. Press F12 to open the console.
4. Or, use console.log() in your JavaScript code to output debugging messages, just like Firebug.
5. Press F12 again to close the console.