Are there any JavaScript library for cross browser desktop notification?

Question

I know W3C just publish their draft version of Web Notification to notify user. So, there is no browser that implement this method in their current or latest build browser.

Web Notifications Overview

After I search a lot of webs for finding all possible desktop notification in most browser.I found any 2 major browser that should support this.

1.Google Chrome and Webkit-based browser

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We can use native Desktop notification function to show message like the following picture.

More infomation: The Chromium Projects - Desktop Notifications

2.Internet Explorer

For IE 5.5+, we can use createPopup function to notify use like in Google Chrome but it's much flexible more that Google Chrome.

More information: CreatePopup Method on MSDN

Moreover, if we pin website to Windows 7 taskbar, we can use overlay icon to notify user too.

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More information: IE9, Site Specific Browsers, and adding your own Jump List Items to Pinned Tabs

Other browser

I think we can use Pines Notify jQuery plugin to create in-browser notification.

Or do you have any desktop notification library or idea for suggesting me?

Thanks,

PS. If it does not have fine library, I will create it with myself.

Update I

Since IE8, it does not allow us to display popup outside current browser. For example, when IE is minimized, all popups are not displayed. So, Google Chrome is only one browser that has fully web notification API (FF 4 also has non-documented web notification API but it not work for now).

Solution 1

These are some that I found:

• https://github.com/alexgibson/notify.js
• https://github.com/ttsvetko/HTML5-Desktop-Notifications

Solution 2

I don't know of a cross-browser lib; but desktop-notifications are coming to Mozilla Firefox post 4.0 as well. They're implemented in trunk already: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573588

Though apparently this new feature won't get included in FF 4.0: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594543

But in the long term, an api related to but different from the webkit will be available.

Not sure about opera, however.

Comments

[Quentin]

Dealing with multiple, inconsistent, non-standard APIs is why people write cross-browser libraries!

[desbest]

I agree, but desktop notifications have not become a part of the HTML5 standard, and that standard was finalised in 2011. (To be exact, WHATWG has stupidly gone to rolling day versions and scrapped version numbers, attracting hateful comments for their announcement, but let's not get into that.)

[Bjorn]

A new dom element inside a web page is not in any shape or form a Desktop notification.

[Beachwalker]

@Bjorn: He is searching for a javascript library. This library has a builtin solution for creating toaster-like messages within a page. Some mimic web-apps looks like desktops and uses them... so my solution is a valid option for creating toaster messages as he requests otherwise he could use a web gateway to a local app. Please consider to take back your downvote.

[Beachwalker]

Live example: download.dojotoolkit.org/release-1.8.0b1/dojo-release-1.8.0b‌​1/…

[Beachwalker]

@Bjorn: The sample within the question is showing a jquery solution for toasters like the live example fro dojo, too. (Why is the same solution using another framework invalid?)

[user456584]

@Vikas "Better" is a relative term, but one consideration is browser support: While notify.js appears to only support FF, Safari, and Chrome, HTML5-Desktop-Notifications purportedly supports some versions of IE as well.

[Mawg says reinstate Monica]

That IE support will probbaly be make/break in some corporate situations