[webkit-dev] Followup on removing webkitNotifications.createHTMLNotification

[Jon Lee]

Happy to hear about this!

As a follow-up question, what numbers are you seeing with the rest of the legacy API? (webkitNotifications.createNotification, webkitNotifications.checkPermission, and webkitNotifications.requestPermission)

Jon

On Jan 23, 2013, at 1:11 AM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:

> 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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>> 
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