HTML5 notifications [closed]

Question

Is anyone using HTML5 notifications in practice, and is there any value in doing so? From my understanding it's limited only to Chrome, and so I can't imagine people jumping on this thing.

Answer 1

Google's now using them in Gmail. I think it'll prove popular and other sites will start running Chrome-only notifications. Then it will get implemented into WebKit so that Safari has it also. Then Firefox will do an implementation and I suspect eventually it'll get standardized.

If it's not hard to support (and it doesn't look to be), then I'd do it. You'll delight the users that have Chrome without adversely affecting the experience for the rest of the users.