Firefox's Web Push Notification System Announced 132
eldavojohn writes "Describing Notifications as 'somewhere between email and IM,' Mozilla has announced this push technology as a way to receive notifications from websites without having to keep them open in your browser — as well as receiving them on your mobile device. A JavaScript API reveals early interface ideas by the team. This core concept is not new — both Google and Apple have their own push notification systems for Android and iOS respectively. However, 'It's important to note that this push notification system is distinct from the existing desktop notification mechanisms that are already defined in pending standards. The desktop notifications that websites like GMail and Seesmic Web display to Chrome users, for example, will only work when the website is left open in a tab. Mozilla's push notification system moves beyond that limitation.' Mozilla is attempting to take push notifications to the entire web for any website to use."
Re:What a great idea: Syndication! (Score:3, Informative)
That's pull, no push. Pushing is much more efficient.
Re:more spam please! (Score:3, Informative)
Requires your permission first. Get spammed? Revoke permission.
Re:WebSlices (Score:5, Informative)
Re:more spam please! (Score:4, Informative)
Riiiight. Because it couldn't at all be possible to have a settings page like this:
From which sites do you wish to permit push notifications?
slashdot.org
news.google.com
cnn.com
No, your browser would have to accept (and display!) every single notification ever sent to you. Makes perfect sense.
And for each little notification bubble, why couldn't there be a little button? "Don't allow any more notifications from this service." Done.
It's like saying you just have to deal with spam emails. No, you don't. That's what spam filters, whitelists, etc. are for. This sort of service sounds like it would be whitelist-based to begin with, so anyone who abuses the service can easily be blocked.
Re:WebSlices (Score:2, Informative)
You seem to have an off by one error in your IE versions.
Re:What a great idea: Syndication! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What a great idea: Syndication! (Score:3, Informative)
Kind of... if you had twitter notify you every time you got a tweet instead of checking your twitter feed.