- From: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:48:03 +0200
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/30/09 7:26 PM, Michael Davidson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Maciej Stachowiak<mjs at apple.com> wrote: >> * Notification Feeds * >> >> Often, web applications would like to give users the option to subscribe to >> notifications that occur at specific times or in response to server-side >> events, and for the user to get these UI notifications without a >> prerequisite that the web app is open or that the browser is running. There >> may be a desire to do client-side computation as well, but often just the >> ability to give the user a notification solves the basic user interaction >> problem. >> >> One possible way to address this kind of use case is to let users subscribe >> to a "feed" of notifications. This feed could use standard syndication >> formats, such as RSS or Atom. But instead of being displayed in a > > This is an interesting idea. The lack of push updates, though, would > make it much less useful than it could be. > > Here's a rough sketch of a more far-out idea: What if all browsers > were XMPP clients and stanzas could be sent to display notifications? > The attack surface would still be low, but you'd get realtime updates. > Instead of subscribing to a feed of notifications, the user accepts > what is essentially a chat invitation from the site. Like normal XMPP > invitations, this would be revocable at any time. > > Lots of issues to work out, but you'd get realtime for free. We're working on that over in the XMPP community... :) Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkpyMTMACgkQNL8k5A2w/vwKNgCg+8q/BEv4jZzKbhMZ7Vz6pDFR iygAnjUJGy0Sn/hA4iTxrX46W6A5VGuf =qetP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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