(sending here, as this never ended up on the WHATWG list)
On August 27, 2014 at 3:42:46 PM, Marcos Caceres (mar...@marcosc.com) wrote: > > > On August 26, 2014 at 5:04:24 PM, Jonas Sicking (jo...@sicking.cc) wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Domenic Denicola > > wrote: > > > +Marcos because he is really good at that kind of investigative work, and > > > might have > > some idea what FFOS is doing for numeric badges. > > > I can do some investigation if people want. > > > > We don't do anything yet. But we'd like to. I definitely feel like > > having a badge is a separate API from notifications. For example a > > badge could show how many unread emails are in the inbox of a webmail > > client, but you woudn't want to create a notification for every one of > > them. > > (I'm not very familiar with the Web's notifications API, so apologies if this > is already > supported) > > To me, badges are a low-priority notification and could probably be handled > by the same > API - but it would be ok to have two APIs and just have them co-ordinate. > Unlike notifications, > a badge can only go away when something explicitly happens at the application > level (the > email is "read"; the reminder is explicitly marked as "done") - simply > "clicking" a notification > is not enough to remove a badge. > > There are also some notifications that don't make sense as badges: for > instance, iTunes > shows me a notification every time a new track starts playing, but doesn't > get added as > a badge. > > More rarely, some applications don't display numbers, but use colors as > badges: For > instance, LimeChat on MacOS will display a blue circle when I get a DM, and a > red circle > when I get mentioned in a channel (this kind of badge sucks tho, because they > end up stomping > on each other). > > So, it would be great to be able to show a notification and also indicate > that its "badge-worthy". > But at the same time, *some* badges have to be saved across sessions (if the > device is rebooted, > badges should be shown after reboot - as iOS does - without needing to > relaunch an application). > > My 2c. > > >
