779895 - Support the |tag| attribute for desktop notification

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Vivien Nicolas (:vingtetun) (:21) - (NOT reading bugmails, needinfo? please)]

Beeing able to use the |tag| attribute ( http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/#tags-example ) would let Gaia use it to provide different type of notifications.

This can be seen as a hack and it is but some applications want to fire |banners| in some cases while they want to fire |toasts| otherwise. We need a way to disambiguish that. I assume a different API may fit here. But out current choice are between using this |tag| value of supporting a new name for window.open('myurl.html', 'banner'); that will be handle by Gaia.

Comment 1

[William Chen [:wchen]]

The tag attribute should not be used this way. It is used to coalesce notifications, not to change the style that we display them. These features are very different. If this needs to be done then it should be spec'ed out into another API.

Comment 2

[Vivien Nicolas (:vingtetun) (:21) - (NOT reading bugmails, needinfo? please)]

(In reply to William Chen [:wchen] from comment #1)
> The tag attribute should not be used this way. It is used to coalesce
> notifications, not to change the style that we display them. These features
> are very different. If this needs to be done then it should be spec'ed out
> into another API.

I'm far for saying the contrary. Do you have any suggestions for now?

Comment 3

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Add something to NotificationOptions dictionary.
DOMString type;

Tough, perhaps it would be better to have different constructor for special types.

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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Comment 5

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

I don't know what "banner" means here, but if that means the text bar on top of the screen, that should probably be handled in HTML. Closing unless anyone sees some use case for general web (which should go to WHATWG instead).