[webkit-dev] Notifications API for workers

2009-04-30 Thread John Gregg
Hi WebKit, I'm working on a Notifications API for Web Workers, with the idea that a user agent could receive these from script and route them in a platform-appropriate & user-configurable way (desktop HTML toasts, Growl calls, status bar on mobile browsers, etc.). Permission controls would be simi

Re: [webkit-dev] Notifications API for workers

2009-05-02 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
I'm pretty concerned about the security/spamming implications of notifications from Workers. A lot of thought has been put into how to make them a good feature for thoughtful, competent Web developers like those at Google. But it seems to me that not as much thought has been put into maki

Re: [webkit-dev] Notifications API for workers

2009-05-02 Thread Drew Wilson
Thanks for the thoughtful response. We're also concerned about many of the same issues you've brought up below, and we've engaged in a number of discussions with the Chrome UX team and our internal Security folks to determine how we can best expose this functionality to the user and prevent misuse.

Re: [webkit-dev] Notifications API for workers

2009-05-04 Thread John Gregg
Thanks Maciej for the feedback. We are definitely concerned with making this feature resistant to abuse, since everyone agrees we don't want to create another class of annoying or insecure pop-ups. A good amount of thought has preceded the code, although I probably didn't coordinate the distribut