Re: [whatwg] [Notifications] Persistent notifications depending on Service Workers

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:

> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Peter Beverloo <beverloo@google.com>
> wrote:
> > For |notificationshow|, there is a worry here that if we decide to
> support
> > delayed notifications, it would enable developers to use notifications to
> > set precise timers: create a delayed notification to be displayed an hour
> > from now, get the |notificationshow| event, and call
> > |notification.close()|. This is something which I'd hope would only be
> > possible through some kind of alarms API, which in itself may be
> > undesirable to start with.
>
> Delayed notifications seems like a new feature of sorts we should
> probably discuss separately. Although now you can create Notification
> objects from a service worker you could get them as the result of e.g.
> a server push so maybe it's not so new as it could be polyfilled in
> that way...
>

Keeping possible future additions in mind allows us to avoid ending up with
a precise alarms-like API if and when we decide to do so. Beyond that, the
subject of delayed notifications indeed is a separate discussion.

Service worker integration makes sense to me. I guess I'll wait with
> updating the Notifications API until that is further along.
>

Do you have a specific milestone in mind?

Thanks,
Peter


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Received on Friday, 16 May 2014 14:20:46 UTC