- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 02:23:12 -0700
- To: Andrew Wilson <atwilson@google.com>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Jake Archibald <jaffathecake@gmail.com>, Peter Beverloo <beverloo@google.com>
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Andrew Wilson <atwilson@google.com> wrote: >> * Dropping the close event. >> >> I've been wondering myself whether it's valuable to support this. Like >> Tab, I'm not aware of any messaging application actually using the close >> event as an indication that the message has been read. There is the "dismiss >> all" button on most platforms, which definitely does not imply having read >> the message. It's actually an interesting privacy question as well, for >> example, if a user dismisses a Facebook notification in their notification >> center without actually starting the app, should the sender be informed >> about them having at least looked at their phone? > > Gmail tracks information internally about all open notifications so it knows > what chat window, email, etc to display when the user clicks on one. It > cleans up those data structures as notifications are closed, so if we stop > generating close events, then gmail will leak even more memory than it > currently does :) Could this be solved by using the 'data' attribute when creating a Notification? / Jonas
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