My use case is this: PC desktop user, I want the browser to be closed,
yet still receive push notifications (incoming email, for example) and
decide on a case-by-case basis (by looking at the subject) whether I'll
open the browser to read the message or not. The key functionality here,
is to be able to look at the incoming mail's subject before opening the
browser.
On 03/23/2013 05:30 PM, Stefan Arentz wrote:
On 2013-03-23, at 7:28 AM, Alexander Karelas <[email protected]> wrote:
The spec (https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/SimplePush) doesn't define how the
app requests details from the AppServer about the empty notification it just
received. See below for proof, an excerpt from the wiki page mentioned above:
"This causes the App to refresh it's messages (again using XHR or some other
medium out of the scope of this protocol), and User gets a screen full of
adorable kittens."
If that's so, then there's no way to make a generic SimplePush application that sits and
waits on the tray, and handles all apps. Because it won't know how to contact the
AppServer to get the notification's details (such as "who wrote the incoming
email").
This is on purpose to keep the API and protocol as simple as possible; there is
no application-defined payload, just the notification that tells your app 'hey
something happened, you better check with your back-end to get more details.'
What is your use case?
S.
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