Web Notifications

[naderman]

There is a draft for standardising the displaying of notifications to the user from webpages. Basically the same thing you know from e.g. your email program when you receive new messages. I think if we could make phpBB support these as an alternative / additional notification mechanism that would greatly improve working with a forum.

The draft is at http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebNotifications/publish/ It seems to currently only be implemented in Chrome and Qt Webkit but I expect that other browsers will follow soon. Obviously it would need to be entirely optional, so older browsers do not have any problems.

[igorw]

This looks very interesting indeed. Perhaps phpBB could provide a more generic interface to support other pub/sub and notification based use cases, such as webhooks (more or less the same as pingbacks). The interface would also have to support queuing (like email and im currently).

[keith10456]

This does look interesting.

Unfortunately though, it appears to be another door for spammers to exploit.

[callumacrae]

IE won't follow. IE never does

~Callum