SCRIPT438: Object doesn't support property or method 'debug'

Question

I have tried to search this but to no avail. The code i have was supplied by a real nice guy on the site and then I modded the attributes to make the elements i had fit into where they needed to go, however, everything works fine in all browsers, that is, except IE - pretty much all versions. i ran the debug in IE9 and was given this error "

SCRIPT438: Object doesn't support property or method 'debug'

The section of code that it refers to is this

function resizeContent() {
    // Retrieve the window width
    var viewPortWidth = $(document).width();
    var viewPortHeight = $(document).height();

    $(".content").each(function(index, element) {

        var jElement = $(this);
        if (jElement.hasClass(currentContentColor)) {
            console.debug('resize content selected (' + (viewPortWidth - 160) + ')');
            // If current content, juste resize the width and height
            jElement.css({
                width: (viewPortWidth - 160) + "px",
                height: viewPortHeight + "px"
            });
        }
        else {
            console.debug('resize content (' + (viewPortWidth - 160) + ')');
            // If not current content, resize with, height and left position
            // (keep content outside)
            jElement.css({
                width: (viewPortWidth - 160) + "px",
                left: viewPortWidth + "px",
                height: viewPortHeight + "px"
            });
        }
    });
}

The Specific line in question is

console.debug('resize content (' + (viewPortWidth - 160) + ')');

Or at least that's what IE says is the issue

Is there a work around for this issue and IE - i am learning slowly - but this is way beyond anything i know. I have searched google and on here for the debug error but couldn't find anything.

The site is http://www.crazyedits.co.uk

Thank you in advance for any help you can give on this issue.

Answer 1

According to the documentation, console.debug has been deprecated; console.log should be used instead.

An alias for log(); this was added to improve compatibility with existing sites already using debug(). However, you should use console.log() instead.

In any case, debug and log are just for printing debugging information to the console - they should be removed from production code.