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HumaneJS - Simple, modern, browser notification system.

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Re: HumaneJS - Simple, modern, browser notification system.

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Post by ricknsteve »

This looks cool. I'm a fan of notifications in general and I like thinking of how notifications can be improved and such. I will say that this is a departure from notifications I usually see on the web with the sliding block that has an 'x'.

Comparing it to humanmsg, the messages themselves are similar although it would be better if it had (not sure if it does and was disabled) the message log.

Re: HumaneJS - Simple, modern, browser notification system.

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Post by Meai »

Please don't take it personally, but I would never use that and neither should anyone else. First of all, building a 'notification system' is incredibly easy, it's just javascript popups. Reading through your code and adapting it to my own application would be a waste of time. Pick any decent js framework and you can do this within fractions of an hour. Secondly - don't do popup notifications ever. They are the antithesis of user intent. Nobody ever 'wants' to see a popup.

Re: HumaneJS - Simple, modern, browser notification system.

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Post by nichol4s »

tmhedberg wrote: post #5
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #4

Why would I use this rather than the notifications api? To support IE? Any other reason?

Firefox doesn't support the notifications API either. Currently only Webkit browsers do.

Actually, only Chrome does.

Example's can be found here: http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/notifications/quick/

Re: HumaneJS - Simple, modern, browser notification system.

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Post by krainboltgreene »

Meai wrote: post #6

Please don't take it personally, but I would never use that and neither should anyone else. First of all, building a 'notification system' is incredibly easy, it's just javascript popups. Reading through your code and adapting it to my own application would be a waste of time. Pick any decent js framework and you can do this within fractions of an hour. Secondly - don't do popup notifications ever. They are the antit…

    First of all, building a 'notification system' 
    is incredibly easy, it's just javascript popups.
No it's not "just javascript popups". Notification systems are clean, and non-intrusive ways of notifying the user of an important event or alert. There is no such thing as "just javascript popups". It takes an understanding of both UX and UI to create.

    Secondly - don't do popup notifications ever. 
    They are the antithesis of user intent. Nobody 
    ever 'wants' to see a popup.
I rarely "go with the grain", but I think Apple, Ubuntu, and a huge amount of web applications would say you're wrong. Users like to be notified of things, but they don't like to be interrupted. Notifications like this are the best way to achieve this.

Re: HumaneJS - Simple, modern, browser notification system.

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Post by krainboltgreene »

I don't like this style, mostly because they don't "stack".

Here's an example:

* User clicks on the good button, notification pops up. * User clicks on the bad button. Notification still there. * User clicks clicks clicks. Alert finally shows, but 5 times in a row.

Re: HumaneJS - Simple, modern, browser notification system.

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Post by Meai »

krainboltgreene wrote: post #8
Meai wrote: post #6

Please don't take it personally, but I would never use that and neither should anyone else. First of all, building a 'notification system' is incredibly easy, it's just javascript popups. Reading through your code and adapting it to my own application would be a waste of time. Pick any decent js framework and you can do this within fractions of an hour. Secondly - don't do popup notifications ever. They are the antit…

First of all, building a 'notification system' is incredibly easy, it's just javascript popups. No it's not "just javascript popups". Notification systems are clean, and non-intrusive ways of notifying the user of an important event or alert. There is no such thing as "just javascript popups". It takes an understanding of both UX and UI to create. Secondly - don't do popup notifications ever. They are the antithesis…

> I rarely "go with the grain", but I think Apple, Ubuntu, and a huge amount of web applications would say you're wrong.

I don't think you understand what a notification is. A notification is purely for informational purposes. Popups in general can sometimes be better than the alternative.

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