Re: [whatwg] Notifications and service workers

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