- From: Doug Turner <dougt@dougt.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:26:21 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Cc: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, public-web-notification@w3.org
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> wrote: >> My only comment is that when I saw the name "Web Notifications", I >> expected it to be about notifications on the Web, perhaps a >> backchannel notification extension to HTTP or something like that. So >> I wonder if a better name wouldn't be "Browser notifications", >> reserving the name "Web notifications" for some future work with >> applicability to the whole Web. > > I made the abstract pretty clear that it is about end-user notifications: > > http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/notifications/raw-file/tip/Overview.html > > I don't care much for the name (if it was up to me it would just be > "Notifications" :-)) but if you do a search on Google you'll find that > "Web Notifications" is the de facto term for end-user notifications. > The Working Group also caries that name. > > We could name the HTTP-based one "network notifications" or "HTTP > notifications" maybe. > > > -- > Anne — Opera Software > http://annevankesteren.nl/ > http://www.opera.com/ > I agree with Anne, but a bit further. We all have better things to do than bikeshed over the name. Doug
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