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Websites Begin Supporting Safari Push Notifications Ahead of Mavericks Launch

Question for all you wanting push notifications of news: how many out there would have wanted the CNN story Miley Cyrus twerking at the MVAs pushed to you?

thisisdallas said:
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.
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True. But they could be indirect about it. You know there are particular links that are cluttered with pseudo-pop-ups. ESPN has then. What if notifications becomes biased to divert people towards these particular links? That would be a more subtle, but very effective, way of generating advertisement revenue.
 
news updates will be cool, but how about notifications for replies to our threads, PMs, etc. That would make it even more useful for a lot of people.

Hopefully this will expand to other browsers like chrome and firefox as well and won't be limited to just safari because I don't use safari.
 
xxBURT0Nxx said:
news updates will be cool, but how about notifications for replies to our threads, PMs, etc. That would make it even more useful for a lot of people.
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Yep. Initially for us, it will be news stories. But adding PM, quotes, etc.... for forums could come after.

arn
 
caliguy said:
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.
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I loved RSS, but it honestly got to a point where it became like email, way too much to catch up on, therefore all was ignored. Plus, Google is discontinuing some of the RSS based services too like iGoogle, etc.

I'm looking forward to trying this out...
 
xxBURT0Nxx said:
news updates will be cool, but how about notifications for replies to our threads, PMs, etc. That would make it even more useful for a lot of people.
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That would be horrible. It's already bad that there are even notifications for replies. Makes you think you need to keep checking it all the time and writing replies. It would take OCD to a new level.
 
kas23 said:
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.
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Push notifications are still useful on the desktop the way they are on the phone. They let you know when something important to you is happening on a site, when the site (or even Safari) is closed.

Push notifications are the most useful when you can really tailor them - for example, I wouldn't want desktop twitter bothering me with notifications all the time, but I would when key people I follow put up something, or when twitter volume jumped suddenly. So hopefully website owners will add lots of customization to the sites as to what conditions trigger push notifications.
 
kas23 said:
That would be horrible. It's already bad that there are even notifications for replies. Makes you think you need to keep checking it all the time and writing replies. It would take OCD to a new level.
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you are not forced to use it... some people would actually want to have notifications for replies and PMs instead of just news articles. So no, it's not a terrible idea. The terrible idea is that every user should use a website exactly how you would use it.
 
kgelner said:
Push notifications are still useful on the desktop the way they are on the phone. They let you know when something important to you is happening on a site, when the site (or even Safari) is closed.
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Idk. Anytime I'm actually sitting in front of a desktop, I'm already cycling through my rotation of favorite sites ad nauseum. I guess notifications would be good for sites I'm not already on 24/7. Sorry MR.
 
arn said:
Yep. Initially for us, it will be news stories. But adding PM, quotes, etc.... for forums could come after.

arn
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That would be incredibly useful. I'm always refreshing the site for updates, now I won't have to. :)
 
caliguy said:
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.
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Twitter has pretty much obsoleted RSS.
 
So there will be a push alert each time MacRumors posts an article? Sounds like a useful tool for the peeps who love being "FIRST!" in the comments. :D
 
xxBURT0Nxx said:
news updates will be cool, but how about notifications for replies to our threads, PMs, etc. That would make it even more useful for a lot of people.

Hopefully this will expand to other browsers like chrome and firefox as well and won't be limited to just safari because I don't use safari.
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You have to subscribe to the notifications in Safari, but after that they'll open up in whatever you have set as your default browser.
 
arn said:
Yep. Initially for us, it will be news stories. But adding PM, quotes, etc.... for forums could come after.

arn
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ARN

Apple never explained this much... Is this like tracking cookies for the OS X? Could you write an article explaining more details and with privacy issues as a consideration?

Thanks for the great forum.
 
wikiverse said:
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.
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It opens your default browser. But seriously... why the anti-Safari attitude? It's better than Chrome and Firefox combined.

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spacepower7 said:
ARN

Apple never explained this much... Is this like tracking cookies for the OS X? Could you write an article explaining more details and with privacy issues as a consideration?

Thanks for the great forum.
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Push Notifications for the Mac are identical to push notifications for iOS. Just delivered to a different device. The mechanics are identical. So if you already use iOS app notifications, there's nothing less secure about Mac app notifications.
 
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