# Online/Offline Event Detection Online and offline event detection can be implemented in the renderer process using standard HTML5 APIs, as shown in the following example. _main.js_ ```javascript var app = require('app'); var BrowserWindow = require('browser-window'); var onlineStatusWindow; app.on('ready', function() { onlineStatusWindow = new BrowserWindow({ width: 0, height: 0, show: false }); onlineStatusWindow.loadUrl('file://' + path.join(__dirname, '/online-status.html')); }); ``` _online-status.html_ ```html ``` There may be instances where one wants to respond to these events in the browser process as well. The browser process however does not have a "navigator" object and thus cannot detect these events directly. Using Atom-shell's inter-process communication utilities, the events can be forwarded to the browser process and handled as needed, as shown in the following example. _main.js_ ```javascript var app = require('app'); var ipc = require('ipc'); var BrowserWindow = require('browser-window'); var onlineStatusWindow; app.on('ready', function() { onlineStatusWindow = new BrowserWindow({ width: 0, height: 0, show: false }); onlineStatusWindow.loadUrl('file://' + path.join(__dirname, '/online-status.html')); }); ipc.on('onlineStatusMessage', function(event, status) { console.log(status); }); ``` _online-status.html_ ```html ```