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Re:Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far by scarlac on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:44AM (#15291564)
Depends on your OS. For Chrome on macOS, it'll show a chrome-styled square box with an icon and a piece of text in the upper right hand corner, kinda like macOS notifications (but they look nothing like it). In general, web notifications (can) work the same way they do on your smart phone. They can arrive from an active tab as well as from a background service.

Safari (on macOS) will use the native macOS notification system to display notifications AFAIR. I have no idea what IE on Windows does.

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Re:Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far by suprfnk on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:53AM (#15291593)
> I have no idea wat IE on Windows does.

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/05/16/web-notificat...

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Re:Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far by matt-attack on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @04:25AM (#15291699)
But in either case the browser has to be running I’m assuming? Seems kinda flawed.
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Re:Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far by spoiler on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @04:41AM (#15291763)
JS service workers allow a JavaScript thread to run in the background while the browser chrome (the window) is closed. So, in theory, the browser doesn't need to be open. Also, notifications can be useful with an open browser too (or, multiple tabs with a tab in the background for example)
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Re:Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far by rowyourboat on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @12:32PM (#15295629)
That depends on the browser implementation. The protocol does not require the user to have the site open.
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