[webkit-dev] Followup on removing webkitNotifications.createHTMLNotification

[Adam Barth]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Andrew Wilson <atwilson at google.com> wrote:
> Apologies for the confusion - I should have finished my coffee before
> reading my mail. I didn't realize this only impacts HTML notifications.
>
> It's still a good reminder that Google really should migrate to the new
> notification APIs, though. I'll get the ball rolling on gmail, at least.

Thanks!  Let me know if you run into any trouble.

Adam


> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Andrew Wilson <atwilson at google.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hmmm. Does FeatureObserver detect features invoked from web apps like
>> > Gmail?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> > Because I'm fairly certain that Gmail and Google Calendar still use
>> > webkitNotifications for their notifications. Not to say that we
>> > shouldn't
>> > land this patch anyway - just pointing out that this may still be used
>> > more
>> > often than your stats would indicate.
>>
>> As Morrita-san writes:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Hajime Morrita <morrita at google.com>
>> wrote:
>> > It looks the patch is removing a specific API called
>> > createHTMLNotification().
>> > Unless these apps are showing HTML-based notification, it should keep
>> > working even after this change.
>>
>> If Gmail is still using the vendor-prefixed webkitNotifications
>> version of the API, they should update to the unprefixed "new
>> Notification" version of the API, which is implemented by a number of
>> different browsers.
>>
>> I know there's some amount of confusion about the current status of
>> the web notification APIs.  I'm working with Chrome's developer
>> relation folks to update our various pieces of documentation and
>> tutorials.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> As discussed in February 2012 [1], we have been deprecating the
>> >> webkitNotifications.createHTMLNotification API for almost a year.
>> >> According to FeatureObserver, the API is used in only 0.0008% of web
>> >> page views, indicating that we have been successful in depreciating
>> >> it.  I've posted a patch to remove it:
>> >>
>> >> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107598
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Adam
>> >>
>> >> [1]
>> >> http://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2012-February/019354.html
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