Sure, we will look out for additional potentially confusing term overlap as suggested.
Thanks, Bryan Sullivan On Mar 11, 2014, at 12:38 PM, "Michael van Ouwerkerk" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I think that's a great suggestion Jeffrey. Specifically, I would like to avoid confusing concepts and terminology in the Push API with those in Web Notifications: http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/ This is important because these two APIs are often discussed together: an app might display a notification to the user after receiving a push message from the server. Regards, Michael On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin <[email protected]<mailto:[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. 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. Thanks, Jeffrey Yasskin P.S. I'm not subscribed to public-webapps@, so please cc me if you want me to reply.
