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Show HN: The Disconnect – a web magazine that forces you offline

8 pointsby chrisbolinover 7 years ago

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chrisbolinover 7 years ago
déjà vu? last summer someone (not me!) posted my very simple demo of this concept (i called it &quot;offline only&quot;). based on the feedback i got here and other places, i decided to build a full magazine, with the help of a lot of other people.<p>this isn&#x27;t another rant about internet addiction. it&#x27;s an experiment with the current state of the internet and our society. over a dozen writers, poets, and artists contributed to this issue. we hope you like it, or at least find it mildly entertaining.<p>(on the tech side, it also uses a lot of newer web features, so it will not be kind to older browsers. sorry! there&#x27;s only so much time in a life)
chrisbolinover 7 years ago
and if you&#x27;re interested in the actual mechanics of detecting online &#x2F; offline connection, look into navigator.onLine and &quot;online&quot; and &quot;offline&quot; events. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;API&#x2F;NavigatorOnLine&#x2F;Online_and_offline_events" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;API&#x2F;NavigatorOn...</a><p>(We also use polling as a backup for browsers that don&#x27;t support the above features)