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Ask HN: How do the new Gmail browser-powered desktop notifications work?

So Google has just soft launched a new feature for Gmail: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/browser-powered-desktop-notifications-are-coming-to-gmail/ I'm wondering how does this actually work? Can I build it for my apps too? Thanks in advance

chapel 16y ago
Here is a StackOverflow question with a good answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2271156/chrome-desktop-notification-example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2271156/chrome-desktop-no...
mopoke 16y ago
It uses "Web Notifications". You can read the draft spec here: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebNotifications/publish/ http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebNotifications/publish/