Hi Jeremy,
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Marcos Caceres<marc...@opera.com> wrote: > > > Jeremy Orlow wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Marcos Caceres <marc...@opera.com >> <mailto:marc...@opera.com>> wrote: >> >> Keeping in line with the design goals to enable Widget-related >> technologies to be used on the Web, I'm wondering if we should spawn >> a separate specification for notifications? We could use the current >> text in the A&E [1] as the basis, which is based heavily on what was >> originally in HTML5 (or just take the old HTML5 text, create the new >> spec, add the hooks for Widgets). >> >> Although notifications have been taken out of HTML5, rumblings that >> they may need reviving occurred recently on the WHAT-WG list: >> >> >> >> http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-March/019113.html >> >> >> There was a lot of talk about notifications in this more recent thread >> as well: >> >> http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-July/thread.html#21421 >> (The thread is long and talks about a lot of things besides >> notifications, but I think there are some key insights in that thread >> about the requirements for notifications.) > > I'll take a look and see what I can extract from the discussion. > >> As a followup to the above, the following code was submitted by >> Google to WebKit to support notifications: >> >> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25463 >> >> So, the question is: do we need a new/separate spec? One that covers >> both Web and Widgets? >> >> >> I think we do need to start thinking about specing this out. Off the >> top of my head, it seems like the requirements for the web and widgets >> will be pretty similar. > > I agree. Lets take notifications out of Widgets API. I think the next action > should be to formally start capturing these requirements. If you have time > to list some requirements you guys have, that would be great. > Just following up on notifications. Are you still interested in perusing this? Can you guys provide any resources to help get this work started? Kind regards, Marcos -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au