Thursday, September 26, 2013

I don't understand how to universally check for connectivity yet.

One of the guys I work with shared this link on how iOS7 behaves and misbehaves with regards to HTML5. It is factfinding done by the Sencha guys. You will notice a callout screaming: "We recommend that organizations standardized on HTML5 development, hold off on upgrading to iOS 7 until an update fixes these issues." ...and that says lots, eh? We were just talking about this in our standup meeting and the usual way of checking to see how many bytes of connectivity are being returned on an iPhone in Safari and using that to determine if one has a connection or not (zero bytes means not) is messed up in iOS7. Note that in Android one has to check a different way too and that outside of smartphoneland one may just use navigator.onLine perhaps like so. I don't understand how to universally check for connectivity yet. I am just now realizing it is not trival.

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