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Push API

Category

Realtime / Communication

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 42)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Push notifications for the web

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://w3c.github.io/push-api/
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Strongly positive
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=350378

Docs: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2015/03/push-notificatons-on-the-open-web https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API

Samples: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/push-messaging-and-notifications

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