I created a Chrome extension in which it uses createHTMLNotification()
to show a window on top of everything. However, starting from Chrome 28 Google decided to drop createHTMLNotification()
entirely (why, Google. Why?). All in a sudden I need to find a replacement.
createHTMLNotification()
let me to dynamically change things on the notification. However, I don't think the new Rich Notification let me do that.
Is there any work-around or suggestions? Thanks.
The change was actually announced properly on the Chromium-Extensions mailing list. There was apparently some misunderstanding though, it was stated in august last year that it would remain in use for extensions, but that only lasted half a year.
Anyway, the official recommended replacement is the Rich Notifications API. There is no other workaround planned.
After a little bit thinking, I still didn't want to be stuck with Google's default layout. So I used the image
type notification, and put a generated canvas image on it. I can draw whatever I want, and I also created a little API to update the notification whenever I want. This worked out perfectly for me.
Thank you Google for making everything so complicated...
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