LaCollision Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaCollision Posted November 5, 2013 Author Share Posted November 5, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Already suggested and discussed >here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaCollision Posted November 5, 2013 Author Share Posted November 5, 2013 Already suggested and discussed >here. Ooops, sorry. :aww: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaCollision Posted November 5, 2013 Author Share Posted November 5, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 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.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaCollision Posted November 5, 2013 Author Share Posted November 5, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaCollision Posted November 7, 2013 Author Share Posted November 7, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaCollision Posted November 8, 2013 Author Share Posted November 8, 2013 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Ah, ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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