Re: Auto closing of notifications

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Andrew Wilson <atwilson@google.com> wrote:
> Applications can also register a window.onclose method to close any pending
> notifications (gmail does this) if that's the behavior they want.
>
> I don't think this addresses issues where the window itself crashes or is
> shutdown due to memory constraints, however. It's not clear to me that we
> *should* auto-close notifications - I suspect that there are arguments in
> favor of keeping those notifications open (for example, if my calendar web
> page crashes, should I really miss out on any notifications that were
> displayed?)

I could see an argument for having some convenience features here.
E.g. being able to define a timeout when creating a notification.
However, it seems we should wait a bit longer until there's more
deployment of this feature to find out what the actual common pain
points are.


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Received on Wednesday, 23 October 2013 15:53:10 UTC