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Re:Desktop notifications in Firefox nightlies by gkoberger on Saturday March 23, 2013 @02:43PM (#5429203)
Another interesting (yet never shipped) take on notifications by Mozilla:

http://jbalogh.me/2012/01/30/push-notifications/

These would have allowed sites to send you notifications after you had left the page, like iOS's push notifications work.

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Re:Desktop notifications in Firefox nightlies by MatthewPhillips on Saturday March 23, 2013 @07:31PM (#5430293)
They have something similar still: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/PushAPI
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Re:Desktop notifications in Firefox nightlies by cpeterso on Sunday March 24, 2013 @12:19AM (#5431083)
NB: That is an outdated spec. The spec that is actively being developed is here:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/SimplePush

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