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Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by amalcon on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:29PM (#32740272)
My answer to this is that the calendar just does not need to be a web app. Weakening a primary advantage of everything else on the web just so that my calendar can be a web app seems like a poor trade-off.

Re: sound, "Triggered as the result of a user action" is not a high enough bar.

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Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:50PM (#32740548)
> the calendar just does not need to be a web app

And the chat app, and the email app, and the social media app (other opinions about social media notwithstanding). I think each of these things have their own legitimate use for notifications.

I guess it's the point of "weakening a primary advantage". I don't see how it's weakened (or rather, I don't see how it's a problem) when the notifications are on a per site permission. Especially so when the notifications can be turned off completely per browser.

> Re: sound, "Triggered as the result of a user action" is not a high enough bar.

I'm with you on this. Although it took until this thread for me to realize that sound at all should be a permission.

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Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by account42 on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @05:03AM (#32748270)
The world would be better off if social media apps did not have notifications.
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Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by shadowgovt on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @02:05PM (#32740768)
Calendars are far more useful as web apps than other incarnations; you can open them anywhere and don't have to carry a specific artifact with you to do it.
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Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by dijit on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @02:40PM (#32741292)
a web view for caldav is just fine (and how I use outlook currently); but for notifications a proper program is definitely preferable.
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Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by nathants on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @03:18PM (#32741908)
the flashing/buzzing/squawking device in your pocket does this quite well.
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