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navigator.connection.downlinkMax, wimax, and onchange

Category
Network / Connectivity
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 48)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Add support for the downlinkMax attribute which provides the maximum theoretical bandwidth that the current connection can support. Also add "wimax" as a connection type. Also adds support for the connection.onchange event. The ontypechange event will be deprecated later.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NetworkInformation/downlinkMax https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NetworkInformation https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NetworkInformation/type https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NetworkInformation/onchange

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/network-information/ https://jkarlin.github.io/netinfo-demo/

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