[whatwg] Notifications: in workers

[Simon Pieters]

On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:40:16 +0200, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at annevk.nl>  
wrote:

> There is some interest in exposing Notification objects in a worker so
> creating one does not require a postMessage() roundtrip.
>
> This seems problematic for shared workers as it is not clear which
> window the notification would be for. For normal workers this seems
> like less of a concern.
>
> If we go with the idea of exposing a URL on Notification objects and
> allow that to be set we might be able to address the shared worker
> issue, but it is not entirely clear to me which semantics are
> desirable there.

My knee-jerk reaction is to tie it to MessagePorts, so that if you make a  
notification on a port, the window that owns the entangled port displays  
the notification. If there isn't an entangled port or if it's not in a  
window, I guess it could silently fail.

The above would enable making notifications from one window on behalf of  
another window, if there's a message channel between the two.

> Maybe if we made it a URL prefix it could work. E.g. you create a
> notification with a URL http://example.org/mail/ If that origin is
> allowed to display notifications that will all go well. If there's a
> window open with that URL as prefix it can be focused once the user
> activates the notification. If there's no window open a window can be
> opened with that URL (no longer a prefix in this scenario). However,
> if there's several windows with that URL it's not clear what the best
> way would be. The last window the user interacted with maybe?
>
>
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Simon Pieters
Opera Software