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Bug 9810 - How is the onLine parameter to be implemented? Here it is described, that it returns true if the user-agent might be online - I think it really has to be rewritten,
Summary: How is the onLine parameter to be implemented? Here it is described, that it ...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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: 9811 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-05-27 13:06 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:27 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-05-27 13:06:34 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#browser-state

Comment:
How is the onLine parameter to be implemented? Here it is described, that it
returns true if the user-agent might be online - I think it really has to be
rewritten, 

Posted from: 93.211.250.160
Comment 1 Ms2ger 2010-06-06 10:23:21 UTC 
*** Bug 9811 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Ms2ger 2010-06-06 10:25:07 UTC 
> The navigator.onLine  attribute must return false if the user agent will not
> contact the network when the user follows links or when a script requests a
> remote page (or knows that such an attempt would fail), and must return true
> otherwise.

-> WFM