Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

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Post by adamcooke » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:09 PM UTC

Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps
notiapp.com

Re: Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

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Post by damncabbage » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:20 PM UTC

Coming soon to a browser near you, the HTML5 Notification API:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/notifications/quick/ http://dangercove.github.com/html5-notifications/

Re: Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

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Post by adamcooke » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:27 PM UTC

damncabbage wrote: post #2

Coming soon to a browser near you, the HTML5 Notification API: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/notifications/quick/ http://dangercove.github.com/html5-notifications/

That's cool, if you happen to have the web app open. With Noti, the app just runs all the time (out of the way) and lets you receive messages at any time.

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Post by bittersweet » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:28 PM UTC

Interesting, could you shed some light on the tech behind this? For example, does this use a custom solution to display notifications or Growl / ML notifications?

Re: Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

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Post by adamcooke » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:53 PM UTC

bittersweet wrote: post #4

Interesting, could you shed some light on the tech behind this? For example, does this use a custom solution to display notifications or Growl / ML notifications?

On Mountain Lion, we use the Notification Centre by default although you can opt to use Growl if you would prefer. In Lion, only Growl is available (obviously) :)

Re: Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

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Post by bittersweet » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:55 PM UTC

adamcooke wrote: post #5

bittersweet wrote: post #4

Interesting, could you shed some light on the tech behind this? For example, does this use a custom solution to display notifications or Growl / ML notifications?

On Mountain Lion, we use the Notification Centre by default although you can opt to use Growl if you would prefer. In Lion, only Growl is available (obviously) :)

And are you poling the noti server? I'm wondering how realtime it is :-)

Re: Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

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Post by rbrcurtis » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:56 PM UTC

This looks really useful. Do you have plans to monetize it?

Re: Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:56 PM UTC

adamcooke wrote: post #5

bittersweet wrote: post #4

Interesting, could you shed some light on the tech behind this? For example, does this use a custom solution to display notifications or Growl / ML notifications?

On Mountain Lion, we use the Notification Centre by default although you can opt to use Growl if you would prefer. In Lion, only Growl is available (obviously) :)

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Re: Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:57 PM UTC

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Post by adamcooke » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:57 PM UTC

bittersweet wrote: post #6

adamcooke wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On Mountain Lion, we use the Notification Centre by default although you can opt to use Growl if you would prefer. In Lion, only Growl is available (obviously) :)

And are you poling the noti server? I'm wondering how realtime it is :-)

We use a socket-based connection on the clients. Messages should be delivered in very near to real-time. There's no polling here ;)