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Re:Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser ... by userbinator on Friday March 19, 2021 @10:30PM (#26520277)
"can be", not "must be"...

Remember that we had real time webchat without JavaScript two decades ago, and a lot of other things that would probably turn into some sort of Chrome-only site if invented today.

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Re:Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser ... by heavyset_go on Friday March 19, 2021 @10:35PM (#26520303)
If you have a solution to giving iOS users the notifications they want via a web app, PWA or not, I'm all ears. We already implement text and email notifications.
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Re:Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser ... by sp332 on Friday March 19, 2021 @10:47PM (#26520379)
Polling, long-polling, websockets? I feel like I'm missing some context here.
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Re:Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser ... by Shared404 on Friday March 19, 2021 @10:57PM (#26520445)
Isn't the issue getting notifications out through the OS notification system?

Unless I'm misunderstanding something about the problem, I don't do iOS dev or any webdev complicated enough to require OS notifications.

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Re:Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser ... by heavyset_go on Friday March 19, 2021 @11:00PM (#26520461)
The Push API allows for efficient push notifications without polling, I believe, but don't quote me on it. The problem is displaying notifications like you would a message notification on iOS.
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Re:Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser ... by imron on Saturday March 20, 2021 @02:13AM (#26521165)
> The problem is displaying notifications like you would a message notification on iOS.

As an iPhone user, this being difficult for developers is a highly desirable feature!

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Re:Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser ... by sp332 on Saturday March 20, 2021 @11:45AM (#26523916)
It would be opt-in like on every other platform, isn't that enough? As heavyset_go said, it's a huge pain when a user wants a notification and can't enable one.
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