Re: [w3c/push-api] Fire an event when push server connectivity changes (#194)

> Do we want a way to notify sites when the connection to the push server is interrupted or resumed? 

No.  The expected behaviour for push is that devices will go offline, and often.  We don't want to wake the device specially every time this happens.

I know that some people like presence, but the whole point of having a mobile device with a push service is to render presence redundant.  With these, it is always possible to send a message to a user.

Presence is then reduced to whether the user *wants* to be disturbed, a far more valuable signal, albeit a harder one to reliably acquire.

As for the case where the push service is down when the network isn't, maybe we can let the user know, but that becomes a UX problem.

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