[whatwg] Notification API

2010-02-03 Thread Henri Sivonen
I noticed that there's a Chromium-specific API for notifications: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/desktop-notifications/api-specification Opera has an Opera Widgets-specific API: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-widgets-specification-fourth-ed/#wo_showNotification

Re: [whatwg] Notification API

2010-02-03 Thread Remco
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:55, Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi wrote: It seems to me that Growl and NotifyOSD notifications have these things in common:  4) Ability to find out if the user clicked the notification. (Not yet in Karmic?) You can't click on a NotifyOSD notification by design.

Re: [whatwg] Notification API

2010-02-03 Thread John Gregg
The Webapps WG is working on a spec for a Web Notification API. You can see the current draft at http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebNotifications/publish/, and I would suggest sending comments to the public-webapps mailing list. That spec attempts to address the icon+title+text use case, and

Re: [whatwg] Notification API

2010-02-03 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:17 AM, John Gregg john...@google.com wrote: The Webapps WG is working on a spec for a Web Notification API. You can see the current draft at http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebNotifications/publish/, and I would suggest sending comments to the public-webapps mailing

Re: [whatwg] Notification API

2010-02-03 Thread John Gregg
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.orgwrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:17 AM, John Gregg john...@google.com wrote: The Webapps WG is working on a spec for a Web Notification API. You can see the current draft at

Re: [whatwg] Notification API

2010-02-03 Thread Drew Wilson
BTW, I would highly recommend that we move this conversation to the public-webapps list. I'm not sure about the best way to do this other than to stop posting here, starting...um...right after my reply :) Anyhow, your question below outlines is why there are two exposed notification APIs - one is

Re: [whatwg] Notification API

2010-02-03 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:00 PM, John Gregg john...@google.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:17 AM, John Gregg john...@google.com wrote: The Webapps WG is working on a spec for a Web Notification API.  You can

Re: [whatwg] Notification API

2010-02-03 Thread Drew Wilson
Apps on the iphone using SQL data storage might disagree with you about the value of optional web features :) But I do understand your point, and perhaps there's a better way to achieve the goals of the notification API. The goals as I understand them are: 1) Support simple text + icon

Re: [whatwg] Notification API

2010-02-03 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Drew Wilson atwil...@google.com wrote: 2) Allow more full-featured HTML notifications on the overwhelming majority of platforms that support them. Given that Mac and Linux don't support HTML notifications, what platforms are those? Rob -- He was pierced for

Re: [whatwg] Notification API

2010-02-03 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Drew Wilson atwil...@google.com wrote: 2) Allow more full-featured HTML notifications on the overwhelming majority of platforms that support them. Given that Mac and Linux don't

Re: [whatwg] Notification API

2010-02-03 Thread David Levin
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Drew Wilson atwil...@google.com wrote: 2) Allow more full-featured HTML notifications on the overwhelming