Re: Notifications

2010/2/23 Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) <ifette@google.com>

> Am 23. Februar 2010 12:11 schrieb Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>:
>
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:20:13 +0100, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) <
>> ifette@google.com> wrote:
>>
>>> CreateInteractiveNotification(in DOMString text-fallback, [Optional] in
>>> DOMString MimeType1, [Optional] in DOMString NotificationFormat1,
>>> [Optional]
>>> in DOMString MimeType2, [Optional] NotificationFormat2, ...)
>>>
>>> forgive my broken IDL, I'm sure there's a better way to express it, but
>>> you get the idea.
>>>
>>
>> I don't see why it cannot be just a URL. If the user agent "supports" the
>> type it will render it and it will fail otherwise. There's no need for
>> complex multi-level fallback here in my opinion, nobody is going to bother
>> with that anyway.
>>
>>
> <video> has multi-level fallback, so there is precedent for better or
> worse. That said, specifying a (set of) URL(s) may be fine, but I think it
> would still be nice for a UA to have fallback options. Is everyone going to
> use it? Probably not, but I think people that actually care would. E.g. if I
> have a property that I expect people on mobile devices to go to, I will make
> sure that it works on mobile devices, exactly as we do with properties today
> where we reasonably expect mobile users.
>

I suspect that text fallback + a single URL would be sufficient. As a
fallback/escape hatch, servers can sniff UA headers and serve up a different
data type if a non-HTML-supporting device starts supporting this API.


>
> -Ian
>
>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Anne van Kesteren
>> http://annevankesteren.nl/
>>
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 21:13:14 UTC