Jeremy Orlow wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Marcos Caceres <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Keeping in line with the design goals to enable Widget-related
technologies to be used on the Web, I'm wondering if we should spawn
a separate specification for notifications? We could use the current
text in the A&E [1] as the basis, which is based heavily on what was
originally in HTML5 (or just take the old HTML5 text, create the new
spec, add the hooks for Widgets).
Although notifications have been taken out of HTML5, rumblings that
they may need reviving occurred recently on the WHAT-WG list:
http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-March/019113.html
There was a lot of talk about notifications in this more recent thread
as well:
http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-July/thread.html#21421
(The thread is long and talks about a lot of things besides
notifications, but I think there are some key insights in that thread
about the requirements for notifications.)
I'll take a look and see what I can extract from the discussion.
As a followup to the above, the following code was submitted by
Google to WebKit to support notifications:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25463
So, the question is: do we need a new/separate spec? One that covers
both Web and Widgets?
I think we do need to start thinking about specing this out. Off the
top of my head, it seems like the requirements for the web and widgets
will be pretty similar.
I agree. Lets take notifications out of Widgets API. I think the next
action should be to formally start capturing these requirements. If you
have time to list some requirements you guys have, that would be great.
Kind regards,
Marcos
