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Ah, but back in the days of IE4 (when this property was introduced), "online" wasn't a word yet.

• nkozyra 11y ago
  I feel like I'm missing the punchline here.
  • spicyj 11y ago
    "online" is accepted as a word now, but the navigator.onLine property was added in IE4 (released in 1997) back when "on line" was the conventional spelling.
    • wnissen 11y ago
      Right, otherwise it would have been just AO, not AOL.
      • nkozyra 11y ago
        As best I can tell, AOL was named America Online (no space or camelcase) in 1989.
    • snogglethorpe 11y ago
      As far as I'm aware (from personal experience), "online" has been the common form when talking about computers since at least the 1980s, if not before. But maybe whoever added that particular property to IE4 wasn't familar with common (in computer circles) usage... Here's what google ngram says: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=online%2Con+line&year_start=1958&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Conline%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Con%20line%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=online%2Con+li...
      • spicyj 11y ago
        I stand corrected! Thank you.
• leeoniya 11y ago
  well, then :( http://caniuse.com/#feat=online-status http://caniuse.com/#feat=online-status