Notifications using Service Workers

Web Notifications have an in-page event delivery model by default, which means that notifications cannot reliably outlive the page's lifetime. Allowing event delivery to be routed to a page's Service Worker provides a solid solution.

Demo

• https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/push-messaging-and-notifications

Documentation

• http://updates.html5rocks.com/2015/03/push-notificatons-on-the-open-web

Specification

Editor's draft

Status in Chromium

Enabled by default in:

• Chrome for desktop release 42
• Chrome for Android release 42
• Opera release 29
• Opera for Android release 29

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Public support
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: No public signals
• Web Developers: No signals

Owner

• peter@chromium.org

Last updated on 2016-03-03