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Chrome 42 Launches With Push Notifications

Posted by Soulskill on from the douglas-adams-edition dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Google today launched Chrome 42 for Windows, Mac, and Linux with new developer tools. Chrome 42 offers two new APIs (Push API and Notifications API) that together allow sites to send notifications to their users even after the given page is closed. While this can be quite an intrusive feature for a browser, Google promises the users have to first grant explicit permission before they receive such a message.

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  1. Fuck No by sexconker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can we go back to the web being "Hey can I get your page at site.tld/page.ext ?" and "Sure, here is what you asked for, and not an entire cart of horseshit jammed in with it, alongside it, or after it! Thank you for visiting our website, valuable reader / customer!"?

  2. Re:Actually, it's worse than that. by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was a design decision to improve browser security (NPAPI model is horribly outdated). Almost no one uses Java on the web any more so it was decided it was acceptable. Oracle is free to port Java to NaCl or PPAPI if they want to continue supporting Chrome.

    Yeah it sucks for the small % of users who still want to use it, but it's necessary to move security forward.

  3. Re:Circa 1995 by Lennie · · Score: 5, Informative

    Chrome ?

    These APIs have been created by organisations working together at the W3C.

    It was actually the person from AT&T which did the most work on getting Push API adopted by the W3C.

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