I tried out Google Gears today. The first thing that came to my mind was existence of something like 'google.gears.isOnline'. The problem is there seems no way to reliably detect online/offline mode in most browsers. I was hoping that 'Gears' has this functionality. But I couldn't find it ??

Does this mean one has to create different set of pages for offline and online mode. I am writing a simple ASP.NET app, that contains only two forms. In my application, I want to first detect if the user in online, if yes those forms function normally, if no 'google.gears.isOnline' then I would procced in offline mode.

I would really appreciate any guidance. T Thanks in advance ! -Ashish