Sorry, by "applications" I meant "mobile apps + desktop applications"
On 03/30/2013 12:25 AM, Doug Turner wrote:
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.
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