- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:19:30 -0500
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Michael Kozakewich<mkozakewich at icosidodecahedron.com> wrote: > From: "Michael Davidson" <mpd at google.com> > Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:24 PM >> >> Having some sort of desktop presence is important for parity >> with desktop apps. Perhaps the install UI could look and feel more >> like the UI for installing a native app? >> >> Michael >> > > If you're going to have an installation, why not make it an actual program? > I thought what you wanted was a regular webpage -- and I'd say one of the > most important things about a webpage is that you don't have to install it. > It sounds like the "hidden page" idea is just the solution you thought up to > the problem of keeping a page running. How many other reasons are there for > it? Agreed that having an actual persistent entity separate from the browser is, well, an application separate from the browser. There's probably something useful and cool possible here with a browser window communicating with a separate program. > That being said: > > Pop-up notifications would be a great thing to do, where someone can use > JavaScript similar to an alert() box that pops up in a corner for a few > seconds and displays a message. I think I'll call this one out a few times, > so someone sees it, because it really would be a worthwhile thing to add to > a spec. Firefox's Jetpack addon (essentially Greasemonkey turned up to 11) exposes a super-convenient jetpack.notifications.show() function for doing exactly that. It pops up an attractive notification in the lower right-hand corner of the screen for a few seconds with a custom title, text, and icon. I'd like to have something like this as a general feature. ~TJ
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