Notifications

An API for displaying simple notifications to the user. Chrome does not yet support displaying them from a Web Worker.

Comments

The legacy window.webkitNotifications was deprecated in Chrome 33. Use the new one: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Using_Web_Notifications

Demo

• http://simpl.info/notification/

Documentation

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notification/Using_Web_Notifications

Specification

Established standard

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Enabled by default in:

• Chrome for desktop release 5

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Shipped
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: Shipped
• Web Developers: No signals

Owner

• peter@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-06-14