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The Modern Web
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The Modern Web

by Peter Gasston
April 2013
Intermediate to advanced
264 pages
7h 44m
English
No Starch Press
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Network Information

Knowing the current strength of a device’s Internet connection is extremely useful; you may want to serve lower-resolution images to devices with low bandwidth or stream different video qualities to users depending on their connection. Likewise, you may want to hold off on the background processes if the user has a limited or metered tariff.

The Network Information API is composed of two attributes on the connection object: bandwidth, which is a figure representing the estimated bandwidth in Megabytes (MBps) of the current connection (0 if the device is offline, infinity if the result is unknown); and metered, a Boolean that returns true if the connection is metered (such as on pay-as-you-go tariffs).

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