25071 2014-03-15 14:40:48 +0000 I am not sure Why? or When? the online or offline script would be used... 2014-07-29 20:56:06 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-body-element requested feedback by e-mail P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian chuck1114 ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 102423 0 contributor 2014-03-15 14:40:48 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/sections.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-body-element Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-body-element Referrer: Comment: I am not sure Why? or When? the online or offline script would be used... Posted from: 50.121.134.14 by chuck1114@frontier.com User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.146 Safari/537.36 102494 1 ian 2014-03-17 19:47:20 +0000 As written, it probably would never be used. But it might be used in more complex scenarios to know when to try contacting the server to update local state, for example in a Web-based document editor. In the spec though it's just an example of using the <body> element. 102599 2 ian 2014-03-18 18:38:46 +0000 Let me know (by reopening the bug) if that's not sufficient explanation. Thanks.