- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:38:10 -0400
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Cc: public-web-notification@w3.org
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:21 AM, 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. How about "Web Notifications API" then? It makes it clear that it's not what I thought it was, but also provides continuity to the community that's adopted it, as you point out. Mark.
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