982467 - Implement CommonJS Console API in XULRunner

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Duan Yao]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140115144847

Steps to reproduce:

Call console.log()/console.error() etc. in a web/xul page's JS code in XULRunner.



Actual results:

Nothing. Messages passed to the console API seem being dropped silently.


Expected results:

Messages passed to the console API show up somewhere(console or jsconsole?).

Comment 1

[Duan Yao]

I doubt that XULRunner doesn't implement CommonJS Console API, because its document only mentions dump() and nsIConsoleService (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/XULRunner/Debugging_XULRunner_applications).

I asked on stackoverflow, and okx suggested nsIConsoleService:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22086998/how-to-enable-javascript-console-log-error-warn-in-xulrunner-applications#

Howerver, nsIConsoleService (1) is not API-compatible with CommonJS console and normal browsers' console implementation (2) can't be used in non-priviliged page.

So, I suggest implement a CommonJS console in XULRunner.

Comment 2

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

xulrunner isn't a thing anymore