To Be or Not to Be... Online, that is
by Theo E. Rushin, Jr.
When you're developing an application that works on the desktop and the web, part of the challenge is in knowing the status of the user's connection to the internet. With the tools that Adobe built into AIR, you can both keep your users informed of their own network connectivity (building trust) and build more robust applications that react to network changes appropriately. Theo E. Rushin, Jr. explores AIR's network detection capabilities and provides code that you can use in your own applications.