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 >> > >> > > > -- >> > >> > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > > > Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. >> > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > > > [email protected] >> > > > . >> > > > For more options, visit this group >> > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl= >> > > > . >> > >> > > -- >> > >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > > Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. >> > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > > [email protected] >> > > . >> > > For more options, visit this group >> > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl= >> > > . >> > >> > > -- >> > >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > > Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. >> > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > > [email protected] >> > > . >> > > For more options, visit this group >> > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl= >> > > . >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "iPhoneWebDev" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "iPhoneWebDev" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=. > > > Remi > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iPhoneWebDev" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iPhoneWebDev" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=. 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