[Feature request] Notifications in OS X Notification center

[LaCollision]

Hi there,

Feature request that would be so nice: the ability to fire a Safari notification in OS X, when a member receives a notification in IPS (new PM, topic reply, new friend…).

Thank you ! :smile:

[LaCollision]

PS : of course, that seems a very minor thing. But my favorite news website added that functionality a few days ago, and now, I can't live without it. This is VERY useful, and for a social community like IPS, I think this is an important feature.

[Still]

Already suggested and discussed >here.

[LaCollision]

Already suggested and discussed >here.

Ooops, sorry. :aww:

[bfarber]

I checked...OSX has about 7.5% market share, and this isn't supported by any other operating system out there. Seems like a small number of users this functionality would actually be beneficial to. (We have been discussing this today internally actually)

[LaCollision]

Thanks for your answer.

Maybe you could support the standard web notifications, and as an option, the OS X notifications ?

Once the job is done for standard web notifications (regular ajax requests ?), maybe the job is easy to also add the OS X notifications ?

I bet the notifications are going to be the next hype in the web.

[opentype]

I checked...OSX has about 7.5% market share, and this isn't supported by any other operating system out there.

Still, an IPS-powered community might be about Apple products, which would totally change the numbers. ;-)

On my site (a graphic design community) 37% use Mac OS and 24% use Safari.

(Just saying. Should be no argument for implementing Safari push notifications.)

[LaCollision]

Hi again,

I just checked what lies beneath the OS X Safari push notifications, and that's a lot of work.

You have to build a certificate, to put special files on your server, and many other things that are related to your domain URL, including an SSL connection and an Apple developer account.

This is not simply done, as could be the local web notifications.

So, unfortunately, IPS really can't do that job for us.

[bfarber]

Yes, supporting standard HTML5 notifications is not a problem (however they could get annoying quickly so we'd need to be careful, and they are only supported when the browser is open, so we can't "rely" on them for important things).

Supporting OSX push notifications is a lot more work, and given the real market share overall, I'm not sure makes sense at this time to spend our time on it with so many other great useful functionality we could work on that more of our clients could enjoy.

[LaCollision]

Yes, supporting standard HTML5 notifications is not a problem (however they could get annoying quickly so we'd need to be careful, and they are only supported when the browser is open, so we can't "rely" on them for important things).

Maybe you could add that option in the USER CP > Notification options :

- email

- online notifications

- push notifications

… in that way, the members could only receive what he wants to.

[bfarber]

Maybe you could add that option in the USER CP > Notification options :

- email

- online notifications

- push notifications

… in that way, the members could only receive what he wants to.

Again, it requires a developer account with apple, APN tracking through a central server, etc. etc. It's not about how to present to the user as an option (that would be imperative)...it's about how much development time and infrastructure would be required for something 8% (when considering global market share) of users can even utilize in the first place.

[LaCollision]

Again, it requires a developer account with apple, APN tracking through a central server, etc. etc. It's not about how to present to the user as an option (that would be imperative)...it's about how much development time and infrastructure would be required for something 8% (when considering global market share) of users can even utilize in the first place.

No, no, I'm talking about local web notifications (standard HTML 5), supported by Firefox / Chrome / Safari, not the OS X web notifications :smile:

[bfarber]

Ah, ok.