QA/Notification API

Feature	Status	Release Target	Lead engineer	QA Lead	QA Status
Notification API	Landed	Firefox 22	William Chen	Cornel Ionce	Done

Summary

This specification provides an API to display notifications to alert users outside the context of a web page. It does not specify exactly how a user agent should display these notifications; the best presentation depends on the device where the user agent is run. When this specification refers to displaying notifications on the "desktop", it generally refers to some static display area outside the web page, but may take several forms, including:

• A corner of the user's display.
• An area within the chrome of the user agent.
• The "home" screen of a mobile device.

This specification is designed to be compatible with existing notification platforms as much as possible, but also to be platform-independent.

Reference

• Notifications API
• Tracking bug: 782211 - Implement notification API spec

Important Bugs

• 856858 - Alert service notifications open in the wrong place and don't auto-dismiss
• 853972 - Clicking on a desktop notification should switch to the notifying tab
• 854025 - Opening an alert service notification crashes my browser
• 852648 - Implement notification center support for web notifications.
• 852658 - Add entry for web notifications in about:permissions page
• 858884 - Web notifications API is not functional in Gmail

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Criteria

• All the blocker, critical, major bugs have been fixed.