No, you are not correct in saying that SimplePush is only designed for desktop applications.
The current implementations use system messages [0], and those happen to only be in B2G applications. But we are working on how to express system messages on Firefox desktop, android, and of course the b2g browser. I would urge you to read the wiki completely, look over at our simple development server [1], and look at a really simple test application [2]. [0] https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.webapi/browse_thread/thread/a3c6e4c31d04b663 [1] https://github.com/dougt/go-push-server [2] https://github.com/dougt/simplepush-test-app I am sure that reviewing all of this material will help you better understand what we are doing. Also, if you have more specific questions, please join us on the #push irc channel. I hope this helps, Doug On 3/29/13 3:15 PM, Alexander Karelas wrote: > Ok, so am I right to say that SimplePush has been designed for > applications only, and not for simple websites for desktop browsers? > > So if a simple website, such as Github.com, wants to display its > notifications on the user's desktop (like it already does on Mac OS > X's notification center), it'll need to create a desktop app for > Linux, another for Windows, and so on. > > Furthermore, the end-user will have to forget what Mac users enjoy, > which is a centralized area containing all the notifications they have > received. > > Great. > > > On 03/25/2013 05:19 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Alexander Karelas >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Take the "github" website for example. It's got notifications, but >>> no native >>> client (at least not for Linux). How will I know that a new >>> notification is >>> worth clicking on if I don't see the subject line? >> A push notification does not display a notification to the user as >> Doug explained. A push notification simply launches the application >> (perhaps in the background) and dispatches an event and then the >> application can decide if it wants to show something to the end-user, >> e.g. by using the Notifications API >> http://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/ which is completely orthogonal >> to Simple Push. >> >> > _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
