<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com">jackalmage@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>Firefox's Jetpack addon (essentially Greasemonkey turned up to 11)<br>
exposes a super-convenient jetpack.notifications.show() function for<br>
doing exactly that. It pops up an attractive notification in the<br>
lower right-hand corner of the screen for a few seconds with a custom<br>
title, text, and icon. I'd like to have something like this as a<br>
general feature.<br>
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~TJ</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Something similar to this is in the works for WebKit as well:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25463">https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25463</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>It's experimental and so would be exposed via window.webkitNotifications.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition to the text+icon functionality, this also enables scripted HTML notifications, to allow things like notifications that display number of unread emails, a dynamic countdown for an event reminder, etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It sounds like enough people are prototyping in this area (us, mozilla jetpack, Palm) that we might get consensus on a general API at some point.</div><div><br></div><div>-atw</div><div><br></div></div>
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