Mac App Store no longer required for Notification Center?

danb77 · Jul 13, 2012, 04:36 PM

When Apple announced 10.8 Notification Centre was an AppStore only feature. But it seems to work with Chrome dev channel which is not from the AppStore. Has this restriction been lifted?

Sky Blue · Jul 13, 2012, 04:39 PM

Can't web browsers also also NC?

danb77 · Jul 13, 2012, 04:52 PM

This was the impression we got at the keynote. Notification centre would be app-store only:

http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/mountain_lion

[quote]I’m interested to see how developer support for Mac App Store-only features plays out. Two big ones: iCloud document storage and Notification Center. Both of these are slated only for third-party apps from the Mac App Store. Many developers, though, have been maintaining non-Mac App Store versions of their apps. If this continues, such apps are going to lose feature parity between the App Store and non-App Store versions. Apple is not taking the Mac in iOS’s “all apps must come through the App Store” direction, but they’re certainly encouraging developers to go Mac App Store-only with iCloud features that are only available to Mac App Store apps (and, thus, which have gone through the App Store approval process).[\quote]

Seems that it isn't! :-D

CyBeRino · Jul 13, 2012, 06:44 PM

It seems to me like allowing access to iCloud only to MAS apps is for security reasons, as this allows access to private documents and whatnot. But I don't see that holding true for notifications.

danb77 · Jul 13, 2012, 06:48 PM

I agree. Here's TUAW only last month assuming that Notification Centre was App store only…

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/06/15/growl...rking-togethe/

-M-I · Jul 13, 2012, 06:49 PM

Yeah I posted about this the other day. Was surprised to see Chrome (and Canary) show up in my Notification Center preferences.

Kinda off-topic but I wish there was a notification for a completed download from one of these browsers.

danb77 · Jul 13, 2012, 07:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by -M-I

Yeah I posted about this the other day. Was surprised to see Chrome (and Canary) show up in my Notification Center preferences.

Kinda off-topic but I wish there was a notification for a completed download from one of these browsers.

Good point. It might be possible to write an extension to do this.

rorschach · Jul 13, 2012, 07:12 PM

I'd never assumed it was MAS only but I guess I hadn't even thought about it.

danb77 · Jul 13, 2012, 08:15 PM

Here's a site which uses the Notification Centre API in Safari.

http://studio.html5rocks.com/#Time!

I'd strongly suspect an extension to create notifications would be quite easy to code. I might have a go...

Schlaefer · Jul 14, 2012, 02:53 AM

If I recall correctly every local app can locally issues notifications. But if the app wants to use Apple's online push service it must be provided through the store.

danb77 · Jul 14, 2012, 03:06 AM

Interesting! I hadn't realised there was push.

treichert · Jul 14, 2012, 03:09 AM

Xslimmer now also uses the notification center and it is an App that will NEVER get into the AppStore.

Nozuka · Jul 14, 2012, 03:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by danb77

Here's a site which uses the Notification Centre API in Safari.

http://studio.html5rocks.com/#Time!

I'd strongly suspect an extension to create notifications would be quite easy to code. I might have a go...

thanks for that, was interesting to see.
especially because it works in chrome too.

Jul 13, 2012, 04:36 PM	#1
danb77 macrumors 6502 Join Date: Sep 2007	Mac App Store no longer required for Notification Center? When Apple announced 10.8 Notification Centre was an AppStore only feature. But it seems to work with Chrome dev channel which is not from the AppStore. Has this restriction been lifted?
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rorschach macrumors 68000 Join Date: Jul 2003	I'd never assumed it was MAS only but I guess I hadn't even thought about it. __________________ MacBook Air 13-inch (Mid 2012), iPhone 5
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Jul 13, 2012, 04:52 PM	#3
danb77 Thread Starter macrumors 6502 Join Date: Sep 2007	This was the impression we got at the keynote. Notification centre would be app-store only: http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/mountain_lion [quote]I’m interested to see how developer support for Mac App Store-only features plays out. Two big ones: iCloud document storage and Notification Center. Both of these are slated only for third-party apps from the Mac App Store. Many developers, though, have been maintaining non-Mac App Store versions of their apps. If this continues, such apps are going to lose feature parity between the App Store and non-App Store versions. Apple is not taking the Mac in iOS’s “all apps must come through the App Store” direction, but they’re certainly encouraging developers to go Mac App Store-only with iCloud features that are only available to Mac App Store apps (and, thus, which have gone through the App Store approval process).[\quote] Seems that it isn't! :-D
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Jul 13, 2012, 06:44 PM	#4
CyBeRino macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jun 2011	It seems to me like allowing access to iCloud only to MAS apps is for security reasons, as this allows access to private documents and whatnot. But I don't see that holding true for notifications.
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Jul 13, 2012, 06:48 PM	#5
danb77 Thread Starter macrumors 6502 Join Date: Sep 2007	I agree. Here's TUAW only last month assuming that Notification Centre was App store only… http://www.tuaw.com/2012/06/15/growl...rking-togethe/
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Jul 13, 2012, 06:49 PM	#6
-M-I macrumors newbie Join Date: Jul 2012	Yeah I posted about this the other day. Was surprised to see Chrome (and Canary) show up in my Notification Center preferences. Kinda off-topic but I wish there was a notification for a completed download from one of these browsers.
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Jul 13, 2012, 08:15 PM	#9
danb77 Thread Starter macrumors 6502 Join Date: Sep 2007	Here's a site which uses the Notification Centre API in Safari. http://studio.html5rocks.com/#Time! I'd strongly suspect an extension to create notifications would be quite easy to code. I might have a go...
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Jul 14, 2012, 02:53 AM	#10
Schlaefer macrumors newbie Join Date: May 2010	If I recall correctly every local app can locally issues notifications. But if the app wants to use Apple's online push service it must be provided through the store.
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Jul 14, 2012, 03:06 AM	#11
danb77 Thread Starter macrumors 6502 Join Date: Sep 2007	Interesting! I hadn't realised there was push.
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Jul 14, 2012, 03:09 AM	#12
treichert macrumors regular Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Aachen, Germany	Xslimmer now also uses the notification center and it is an App that will NEVER get into the AppStore.
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