Re:Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox
by icebraining on Friday February 03, 2012 @01:09PM
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I don't see anything that ties people to a single aggregator, and it's not common for Mozilla to design for that. From the spec[1] it seems they're designing a system where client has to accept any URL to notify and any server can work as long as they accept POST request with certain parameters.
[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Notifications/Push/API
Re:Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox
by jbalogh on Friday February 03, 2012 @02:05PM
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Right, one of the goals of the design is to not lock in any one aggregator. We just need to standardize the server API so other apps don't have to care who they're talking to.
Re:Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox
by AndrewDucker on Friday February 03, 2012 @01:17PM
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Looking at the higher level document* the Post Office seems to require the Mozilla ID. It's possible that that just means "A unique ID for that server", but I'd like that to be explicit.
* https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Notifications/Push#Post_Of...
Re:Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox
by jbalogh on Friday February 03, 2012 @02:01PM
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Like all wikis, that document was way out of date.
Re:Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox
by sounds on Friday February 03, 2012 @01:29PM
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Thanks for pointing this out. SMTP, for example, is sort-of equivalent to what Mozilla is doing. (send messages to users, remove duplicates, and verify the user's and sender's identity)
SMTP isn't directly usable in a browser - they're not competing directly - but SMTP is a federated system with an open protocol.
"Mozilla Push" will most likely be just as open.
Re:Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox
by AndrewDucker on Friday February 03, 2012 @02:18PM
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I hope so - the idea is awesome!
But I do not like the idea of tying it to web browsers, or to one aggregator. If I want all of my notifications to go to Google and be turned into emails, or to Facebook and appear in my inbox there, or to a server I run myself, where I can get them with a desktop app, then I should be able to.