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Notifications

Category

Realtime / Communication

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 5)

Intent stage

None

Summary

An API for displaying simple notifications to the user. Chrome does not yet support displaying them from a Web Worker.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: No signals

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notification/Using_Web_Notifications

Samples: http://simpl.info/notification/

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