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Add console.log() %c support for parity with browsers, Deno, and Bun

Open jcbhmr opened this issue 11 months ago • 0 comments

would be fixed by https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49205

My attempt at a compat table of ANSI and %c:

%c ANSI
Node.js ☑️
Deno ☑️ ☑️
Bun ☑️ ☑️
Chrome ☑️ ☑️
Firefox ☑️
Safari ☑️ ?

Why this would be a good idea:

  • Feature parity with other desktop JavaScript runtimes like Deno and Bun
  • Allow documentation authors to recommend using %c instead of ANSI for more compatibility without "%c works everywhere except Node.js" clauses
  • %c is ignored in unsupported environments (like current Node.js) whereas ANSI causes jargon to be printed (particularly in Firefox). Thus, encouraging %c is more "progressive enhancement" or "graceful degradation" than ANSI ??

basically just "everyone else is doing it, so it's probably a good idea to conform to what users expect"

previous issue https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/29605

jcbhmr avatar Apr 03 '24 14:04 jcbhmr