All web browsers, and most other JavaScript environments, have shipped some form of developer console. This standard attempts to finally define the semantics of the console APIs, in an attempt to create convergence.

A list containing some of the observed differences so far in different environments is available in NOTES.md.

This specification is still in its very early stages. It is very much a work in progress.

The Console Standard is written in Bikeshed, with an additional bit of help from emu-algify. The main source is in the file index.bs.

To build the standard locally, you will need a recent version of Node.js. Run npm install in the root directory to set things up. Then the Makefile should take care of the rest by calling out to the Bikeshed web service.