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The goal is to redesign notifications to address various issues with them and provide a unified action/notification area for them.
Issues with current notification bars
- Pushes content down
- Hangs around on the same domain
- Visual distraction
- Once dismissed, they cannot reappear
- Cannot show multiple notifications at once
- Phishing is possible since notification bar appears within the content so it can be faked
- Action taken on a bar cannot easily be canceled/undone
Design
A new actions button will provide access to all of the notifications. The notifications will drop down from it. Following the notifications, static actions will follow after a separator.
Each notification will have:
- a large icon on the left
- a question
- a button for affirmative action
Non-critical notifications will be dismissed (fade out) when focus is lost. If multiple notifications occur at once, they will overlap
Notification Uses
Examples taken from existing notification bars and dialogs:
- Password manager
- Popup blocker
- Offline storage
- Geolocation
- Firefox updates
- Extension updates
- ...
Static Actions
Possible static actions:
- Default Options
- Save
- Extension examples
- Share
- Tweet
- Inspect