Are you sure? I built a demo a while ago to show connection handling, and I had to check during start up as well as use events. I just tested with PhoneGap 2.6 and Ripple, and on Chrome, it did *not* fire an event handler for network change when the app started.
On 5/20/13 4:05 PM, "Shazron" <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> * Do relevant online/offline events fire when the app starts up, or >> only when a change is detected during execution? The text for the >> offline event iOS quirk implies the former case: "During initial >> startup, the first offline event (if applicable) takes at least a >> second to fire." If it fires when the app inits, is the value of >> navigator.onLine true or false during that 1-second delay? >> >> >During both startup and when a change is detected. > >navigator.onLine is tied to the connection API: >https://github.com/apache/cordova-js/blob/2d15c4045aab52f8b2d728bd90244894 >258b3b47/lib/common/plugin/network.js#L30-L34 > >During that iOS delay, it will be 'unknown' then after it should reflect >the right value.
