LAUNCH A DESKTOP NOTIFICATION MESSAGE

After permission has been granted, you can trigger a desktop notification pop-up message at any time in your web application. Naturally, the whole point in displaying a desktop notification is to get the user’s attention when your web application is running in the background. This implies some sort of Ajax-like activity that triggers the launch. The Gmail service is a good example of this implementation. Simply leave Gmail running in the background and as new mail arrives, a desktop notification message makes the announcement.

var notifyAPI = window.webkitNotifications;
 if ( typeof notifyAPI == 'object' &&
      notifyAPI.checkPermission() == 0 ) {
   var notifyMessage = notifyAPI.
 createNotification(iconURL, title, ...

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