Well, the idea around i had was actually just email notifications, like facebook

Le 22 nov. 2009 à 15:22, Chris Collett a écrit :

> A good point. In fact, with an opt in email you can build a mailing list, 
> which is valuable.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Remi Grumeau <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sometimes, the best way to solve a problem is to look at it from a different 
> angle :)
> Your problematic: having a number on the icon
> The real problematic: notify the user that updates are available
> 
> To notify a user, there is many ways: email, SMS, website private message, 
> IM, ... with an url in it, since it's a web app.
> Am i wrong ?
> 
> Remi
> 
> Le 22 nov. 2009 à 14:25, Chris Collett a écrit :
> 
>> You don't necessarily need to have a ton of icons. You could just have one 
>> default and one that has an exclamation point or something similar to show 
>> there's an update.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 3:43 PM, StanRB <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Agree with GeoNomad... The best workaround would be to change the icon
>> every time, but imagine how many icons with numbers you have to have!
>> And not only that but it cannot go out of the border of the icon. I
>> don't believe phonegap can do it either.
>> 
>> Stan
>> 
>> On Nov 21, 1:38 pm, Karl Prosser <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Desktop apps can tap into it. Todo list sort of apps often use it to  
>> > reflect how many todo items for the day.
>> >
>> > - Karl Prosser
>> >
>> > On Nov 21, 2009, at 5:27 AM, Chris Collett <[email protected]>  
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > I'm not sure the update indicator will appear for anything other  
>> > > than an app update.
>> >
>> > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Rémi Grumeau <[email protected]
>> > > m> wrote:
>> > > wow ... pretty good question !
>> > > You're talking about the number of updates available for the app on
>> > > the main dashboard of the iphone isn't it ? (like for emails or on the
>> > > AppStore icon when system/app updates are available)
>> >
>> > > no idea if it's possible or not :-S
>> >
>> > > Remi
>> >
>> > > Le 21 nov. 09 à 02:41, Gerald Buckley a écrit :
>> >
>> > > > I've long admired apps that signal something requires attention by  
>> > > way
>> > > > of overlaying the WebClipIcon with numeric alerts. (Sorry, I don't
>> > > > know the correct terminology for this yet)
>> >
>> > > > I have an RSS feed I'd like to trigger updates to my WebClipIcon.  
>> > > Can
>> > > > web apps achieve this? If so, how to please? For that matter can my
>> > > > webapp do this once wrapped up with PhoneGap? If so, I'll source it
>> > > > through their Google Group.
>> >
>> > > > As always, many thanks!
>> >
>> > > > Gerald
>> >
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