navigator.onLine in Chrome Dev channel

With the offline APIs in HTML5, there's no excuse not to provide a flawless offline experience for users. One thing that can help this story is the navigator.onLine property; a feature that recently landed in Chrome dev channel. This property returns true or false depending on whether or not the app has network connectivity:

if (navigator.onLine) {
} else {
  console.log('Connection flaky');

A web app can also listen for online and offline events to determine when the connection is available again or when an app goes offline:

window.addEventListener('online', function(e) {
  // Re-sync data with server.
}, false);

window.addEventListener('offline', function(e) {
  // Queue up events for server.
}, false);

I've posted a working demo at and more information on offline events can be found in the MDN.