Re: [whatwg] isBrowserOnline vs navigator.onLine

2005-10-10 Thread Ian Hickson
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,
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Re: [whatwg] isBrowserOnline vs navigator.onLine

2005-10-09 Thread Brad Neuberg
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?

Best,
  Brad

--- Dave Hyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 WebKit now supports this too (not released yet, but
 in our tip of  
 tree it does).
 
 dave
 
 On Oct 9, 2005, at 8:40 PM, 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?
 
  -- 
  erik
 
 
 



Re: [whatwg] isBrowserOnline vs navigator.onLine

2005-10-09 Thread Lachlan Hunt

Brad Neuberg wrote:

I just tested navigator.onLine in Firefox and it returned undefined.
I used javascript:alert(navigator.onLine). It works in IE.


That works for me in Firefox 1.5b2.


Is it supposed to work in Firefox? How does a user  move into offline
mode in that browser?


FileWork Offline


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