Status: New Owner: ---- Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium New issue 910 by Klaus.Weidner: feature request: support notification mechanism such as system tray popup messages http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=910
Currently, there doesn't seem to be a good way for a web application to provide notifications to the user when the window or tab with the application isn't visible. Typical use cases would be notifications for new incoming messages (IM or email), and showing status updates of long-running operations (for example batch image upload by a photo manager). Gmail works around this by constantly changing the window title to notify of a new instant message, but that isn't really a reliable method. I think it would be very useful to provide support for an abstract notification method for web applications that doesn't interfere with whatever the user is currently doing (so no Javascript alerts), and that's implemented in a platform-appropriate way, for example message bubbles shown in the system tray notification area, or Android status bar pulldown or toasts. It should be usable both for transient messages (that disappear automatically with no interaction) and persistent ones (that stay until closed). The feature should of course require explicit permission to avoid random web pages from abusing it, ideally controllable separately for individual applications and globally. For example, it's necessary to be able to temporarily suppress popups while giving a presentation. Some related links: http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec- latest.html http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Toast.html -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings
