- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:04:23 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Erik Arvidsson wrote: > > Both IE and Mozilla supports navigator.onLine to detect whether the user > agent is in on line or off line mode. Would it not be better to use this > existing solution instead of adding a new attribute to the Window > interface? Yes! I didn't even know about navigator.onLine. I have changed the definition to use that instead of adding something new. (I've left the two events in, though; does IE have events for that too? I couldn't find any.) On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Dave Hyatt wrote: > > WebKit now supports this too (not released yet, but in our tip of tree > it does). Great! On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Brad Neuberg wrote: > > I just tested navigator.onLine in Firefox and it > returned undefined. I used > javascript:alert(navigator.onLine). It works in IE. Is > it supposed to work in Firefox? How does a user move > into offline mode in that browser? It certainly works in recent trunk builds. You can go offline using File | Work Offline. Thanks, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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