Automatic online/offline status management
Robert O'Callahan
I have checked in Necko APIs for automatic online/offline management.
These APIs let Gecko applications automatically sense whether there is
currently a network link configured, on platforms where a
platform-specific component for doing this is available. Furthermore, by
default Necko tracks this status and when there is no link, it puts
itself into offline mode.
Currently there are no network link status components checked in, so you
won't get any behaviour change. I have a component for Linux awaiting
review which uses dbus and NetworkManager to track link state. There is
an old patch for Windows that could be updated to use these APIs.
This does impact applications that manually twiddle Necko's offline
mode, so I've made Thunderbird and Seamonkey disable this
auto-management for now, so nothing changes for them until someone
updates them to be aware of the network state. I've modified Firefox to
get reasonable interaction with the Work Offline menu item.
Rob