On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin <[email protected]>wrote:
> The term "push notification" in > https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/push/raw-file/tip/index.html#dfn-push-notification > seems to confuse people into thinking that the user will be > notified/bothered when such a message arrives. This is reinforced by > the fact that iOS uses "push notification" for exactly that: a way to > notify the user based on a message from a server. See > > https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/RemoteNotificationsPG/Chapters/WhatAreRemoteNotif.html > . > iOS push notifications refer to sending data to the device, including sending data to a running application without doing anything user-visible. The part of push notifications that displays a message to the user is referred to as an alert, which is an optional part of a push notification. Since the spec already uses the name "PushMessage" for the thing > delivered by a push notification > (https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/push/raw-file/tip/index.html#pushmessage-interface > ), > it seems like "push message" would be a good replacement for the > current ambiguous name. > Calling them "push messages" tells me that it does mean a message to the user. I think using the established term "push notification" is clearer than making up a new term. -- Glenn Maynard
