{"id":651328,"date":"2013-04-09T09:13:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T13:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=629079"},"modified":"2013-04-09T09:13:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T13:13:31","slug":"why-your-chrome-browser-is-about-to-get-smartphone-like-rich-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651328","title":{"rendered":"Why your Chrome browser is about to get smartphone-like rich notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google’s latest stable channel of Chrome includes developer support for rich browser notifications<\/a> in web apps. This isn’t the rumored Google Now integration coming to Chrome<\/a>, but it does bring the browser one step closer to having proactive, useful pop-ups of actionable information. Don’t look for the new feature on Chrome for Mac or Linux though: for now, the notification support is only baked into the Windows and Chrome OS versions.<\/p>\n

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Fran\u00e7ois Beaufort, newly hired by Google after months of publicly finding and sharing information on the company’s browser efforts, found the notification code in the latest Chromium stable channel<\/a>. He notes that “we should start to see bubbling some of them (notifications) quite soon now.”<\/p>\n

That means developers have yet to add support for these bits in their web apps but can do so now. So far, I’ve only seen a few notifications on the Chromebook Pixel<\/a> and all of them have been from Google services. Google Voicemails, missed Google Voice calls, incoming Gmail messages and Google+ Hangout invitations have all appeared for me recently.<\/p>\n

Why are the notifications important? They bring the Chrome browser closer to a one-stop shop for online needs; more like a true operating system. These notifications are actionable — you can click them to jump into the appropriate web app, for example — but not obtrusive since they’ll disappear in a few seconds on their own if no action is taken. Think of them like notifications on your smartphone. They provide relevant, real-time information but you can choose to ignore any further action until later.<\/p>\n

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