Sometimes, the best way to solve a problem is to look at it from a different angle :) Your problematic: having a number on the icon The real problematic: notify the user that updates are available
To notify a user, there is many ways: email, SMS, website private message, IM, ... with an url in it, since it's a web app. Am i wrong ? Remi Le 22 nov. 2009 à 14:25, Chris Collett a écrit : > You don't necessarily need to have a ton of icons. You could just have one > default and one that has an exclamation point or something similar to show > there's an update. > > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 3:43 PM, StanRB <[email protected]> wrote: > Agree with GeoNomad... The best workaround would be to change the icon > every time, but imagine how many icons with numbers you have to have! > And not only that but it cannot go out of the border of the icon. I > don't believe phonegap can do it either. > > Stan > > On Nov 21, 1:38 pm, Karl Prosser <[email protected]> wrote: > > Desktop apps can tap into it. Todo list sort of apps often use it to > > reflect how many todo items for the day. > > > > - Karl Prosser > > > > On Nov 21, 2009, at 5:27 AM, Chris Collett <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure the update indicator will appear for anything other > > > than an app update. > > > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Rémi Grumeau <[email protected] > > > m> wrote: > > > wow ... pretty good question ! > > > You're talking about the number of updates available for the app on > > > the main dashboard of the iphone isn't it ? (like for emails or on the > > > AppStore icon when system/app updates are available) > > > > > no idea if it's possible or not :-S > > > > > Remi > > > > > Le 21 nov. 09 à 02:41, Gerald Buckley a écrit : > > > > > > I've long admired apps that signal something requires attention by > > > way > > > > of overlaying the WebClipIcon with numeric alerts. (Sorry, I don't > > > > know the correct terminology for this yet) > > > > > > I have an RSS feed I'd like to trigger updates to my WebClipIcon. > > > Can > > > > web apps achieve this? If so, how to please? For that matter can my > > > > webapp do this once wrapped up with PhoneGap? If so, I'll source it > > > > through their Google Group. > > > > > > As always, many thanks! > > > > > > Gerald > > > > > > -- > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > [email protected] > > > > . > > > > For more options, visit this group > > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl= > > > > . > > > > > -- > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl= > > > . > > > > > -- > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl= > > > . > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iPhoneWebDev" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=. > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iPhoneWebDev" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=. Remi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=.
