Coming soon to a browser near you, the HTML5 Notification API:<p><a href="http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/notifications/quick/" rel="nofollow">http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/notifications/quick/</a>
<a href="http://dangercove.github.com/html5-notifications/" rel="nofollow">http://dangercove.github.com/html5-notifications/</a>
Cool concept, but even using Zapier, I can't find any of the things I'd actually like to be notified about.<p>To provide a couple easy examples, I want notifications for time-wasting sites like reddit and facebook so that I spend less time visiting those sites to check for notifications. In the case of facebook, I want to know about anything that triggers a notification, or about incoming messages. On reddit, I want to be notified about a comment reply, PM, mod mail or new modqueue item.
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?