As of Chrome 80, the Notifications API became available as an Origin Trial. The problem with the Push API is that it’s not reliable for triggering notifications which must be shown when a particular condition, like time or location, is met. Notification triggers solve this problem by letting you schedule notifications with their triggering condition …
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Accept Push Notifications to verify that you’re not a robot
Speaking of Push Notifications in the previous post, how about this Dark Pattern right here which I encountered recently: Press Allow to verify that you’re not a robot Pretty sure many users walk blindly into that trap!? 😞
Quieter Permission UI for Notifications coming to Chrome 80
Looking forward to this Chrome 80 feature: To protect notifications as a useful service for users, Chrome 80 will show, under certain conditions, a new, quieter notification permission UI that reduces the interruptiveness of notification permission requests. Immediately after the Chrome 80 release, users will be able to opt-in to the new UI manually in …
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Trigger macOS notifications from the CLI with node-notifier-cli
$ notify -t “Hello” -m “My Message” -s –open http://github.com $ notify -t “Agent Coulson” –icon https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mikaelbr/node-notifier/master/example/coulson.jpg $ notify -m “My Message” -s Glass $ echo “My Message” | notify -t “Hello” Installation per NPM/Yarn: yarn global add node-notifier-cli TIP: As with many packages you can also run it using the aforementioned npx: npx -p …
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Silence (embarrassing) notifications with Muzzle
Muzzle looks like a handy app: Automatically turn on Do Not Disturb when screensharing starts. It works with everything. I especially dig the example notifications included on their website … I could watch this all day 😂 Muzzle – silence embarrassing notifications →
Web Notifications Generator
Handy tool by Peter Beverloo to generating Web Notifications. Web Notifications Generator →Using the Notifications API (MDN) →
Pusher — HTML5 WebSocket Powered Realtime Messaging Service
Pusher is a hosted API for quickly, easily and securely adding scalable realtime functionality to web and mobile apps It’s as easy as subscribing to a channel: var channel = pusher.subscribe(‘my-channel’); channel.bind(‘my-event’, function(data) { alert(‘Received my-event with message: ‘ + data.message); }); and pushing messages to it: pusher.trigger(‘my-channel’, ‘my-event’, { "message": "hello world" } ); …
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Web Notifications
Good writeup on Web Notifications by David Storey →