-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Owens wrote on 21/06/10 11:47: > > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 10:46 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >> >> If you are referring to Ubuntu's notification bubbles, Chrome's >> notification API is fundamentally incompatible with Ubuntu >> notification bubbles. It is also fundamentally incompatible with >> Windows notification balloons, and with Growl notifications on Mac >> OS X. It's very much a Chrome-specific thing. > > That's fairly damning, do you have a link where I could read up on the > technical explanation?
I replied when Google first proposed this in March 2009: <http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-March/018769.html> They're working on a draft that they may eventually submit to the W3C: <http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebNotifications/publish/> (Skimming through that, I see that I may have been mistaken about it being incompatible with Windows notification balloons. I thought it allowed notifications of indefinite duration, contra Windows Vista and later, but it doesn't seem to.) > I'd like to understand how text could be > incompatible. >... It's not the text, but the interaction model. The draft says "while the Notification object offers an 'onclick' event, applications may enhance their functionality by listening for that event, but *must not depend on receiving it*, in case the underlying notification platform does not provide that capability." This is, really, as much as we could reasonably hope for from a specification of this nature (it even name-checks Notify OSD). But Ubuntu has negligible market share amongst Web designers. So pessimistically, if Chrome on other platforms allows onclick(), authors will expect it to be possible on every platform -- it won't even occur to them to test with Notify OSD. The current draft also has this use case: "A calendar application alerts the user for an upcoming meeting, and allows the user to easily specify a 'snooze' delay of several possible time periods." I don't see how the draft API would cater for that, so they may be planning to extend it further. - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwfS8AACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecoEuQCcDxXpNeA4JkKAN/6UPmm6iGo8 viQAoKkvS8gGeDBxMHPw6wvi6alGJH0m =N6WY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
