Websites Begin Supporting Safari Push Notifications Ahead of Mavericks Launch

[MacRumors]

Ahead of the final unveiling of OS X Mavericks at tomorrow's media event and an expected public launch soon after, several high-profile websites including The New York Times and NBA.com have begun supporting the new Safari push notifications feature included with Mavericks, as noted by user Sky Blue in our forums. The feature allows users to subscribe to websites' notification services and have various types of alerts pushed to their Macs even when Safari is not running.

Push notifications in Mavericks may be a handy alternative to RSS or Twitter for many users, delivering clickable notifications directly to the users' desktops in a timely fashion.

While several sites have already begun to go live with their notification services, accessible to users running the OS X Mavericks beta, others will undoubtedly be following suit as Mavericks officially launches to the public. MacRumors will be supporting the feature, allowing users to receive instant notifications whenever new articles are posted to the site.

OS X Mavericks is expected to launch to the public before the end of the month, but may arrive as soon as this week following the final introduction at tomorrow's media event.

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[musika]

I do not see myself using this one bit.

EDIT: After reading some of the comments that have come after mine (especially about using this for news notifications, I completely have changed my mind. I still don't see myself using it much, but I can definitely see the benefit of having the feature.

 

[Dulcimer]

I do look forward to this feature. Especially for MR

 

[Peace]

I do not see myself using this one bit.

I can see using it for sites like MacRumors. Perhaps CNN.

 

[taptic]

We need hear no more. Mac OS X is morphing into iOS...

 

[Crzyrio]

This makes the Notification Centre so much more useful

 

[Squilly]

Really smart implementation.

I'm sure when Windows 9 is released, they'll implement this (as well as Samsung with "S Center" or something -__-).

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I do not see myself using this one bit.

Could definitely see myself using this for real time MR updates.

 

[singhjeet29]

I didn't understand initially when this was announced, how this would be useful to me. Now with News notifications I can see myself really using this.

(Would definitely use the notifications for a new story from MR)

 

[Xerotech]

Whoa, haven't kept up to date with the features. This'll be a cool addon.

 

[chrisbru]

I'm a fan. Useful for things like ESPN, Macrumors, etc.

Edit: If there was a way (maybe there is) to pick which FB/Twitter notifications went there, it would be even better.

 

[kas23]

I think this is a really cool idea. It looks like it's going to be implemented well, but I just hope websites don't use it to push spam.

 

[ThatGuyInLa]

How about Airdrop support for osx to iOS? You know, features the users actually want.

 

[mrmarts]

This may prove useful, rather than always refreshing a webpage like macrumors.

 

[caliguy]

Why was RSS support ever removed from Safari in the first place? It seemed completely unnecessary at the time. I wonder if this was in Apple's playbook. It would have been slightly redundant to have push notifications and a built-in RSS reader, yet would have made a lot more people annoyed (I think) if they would have simply replaced RSS with push notification now at this time.

 

[Peace]

Why was RSS support ever removed from Safari in the first place? It seemed completely unnecessary at the time. I wonder if this was in Apple's playbook. It would have been slightly redundant to have push notifications and a built-in RSS reader, yet would have made a lot more people annoyed (I think) if they would have simply replaced RSS with push notification now at this time.

Why ? One word.

Google.

 

[kas23]

I'm sure when Windows 9 is released, they'll implement this (as well as Samsung with "S Center" or something -

I would hope so. They more platforms that adopt this, the more likely a website would offer this. The way it is now, the websites have to enable this feature. I don't think you can define your own notification triggers.

 

[ZacNicholson]

This seems a lot like RSS. Is it?

 

[goobot]

We need hear no more. Mac OS X is morphing into iOS...

Im pretty sure IOS Safari doesnt have push notifications... And a good feature is a good feature, maybe we should take the retina display out of macs because the iPhone had it first?

 

[thisisdallas]

I think this is a really cool idea. It looks like it's going to be implemented well, but I just hope websites don't use it to push spam.

I doubt websites will abuse it. Them more subscribers they have to their website, the more people that have the potential to visit the site more often than usual. If one starts spamming ads, the user would unsubscribe, thus cutting off the "hey look at me!" aspect of having push notifications.

 

[wikiverse]

Here is the real question. If I click on the website's notification, will it open the link in my default browser or will it open Safari?

If it opens Firefox/Chrome, then I can see this being useful. Otherwise it's like iOS launching Apple Maps when you click an address - ********** annoying.

 

[goobot]

Here is the real question. If I click on the website's notification, will it open the link in my default browser or will it open Safari?

If it opens Firefox/Chrome, then I can see this being useful. Otherwise it's like iOS launching Apple Maps when you click an address - ********** annoying.

Im going to guess Safari, but hey i could be wrong, it could be your default web-browser. Tho even if not you could probably use some terminal command or download something that would make it go to a different browser.

 

[cmChimera]

Yes. So happy.

Edit: I want to be clear. My post was in all caps so that there was no ambiguity to my level of excitement.

 

[kas23]

One question though. Will this push notifications to our iPhones? Otherwise, I don't really know the utility of push notifications if I'm sitting on my butt in front of a desktop.

 

[pittpanthersfan]

Here is the real question. If I click on the website's notification, will it open the link in my default browser or will it open Safari?

If it opens Firefox/Chrome, then I can see this being useful. Otherwise it's like iOS launching Apple Maps when you click an address - ********** annoying.

Can't Firefox/Chrome use the Notification Center API to do something similar themselves?

 

[JAT]

I doubt websites will abuse it.

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!