AppleInsider Staff
In a mass email sent out to developers on Wednesday, Apple said to "get ready" for Safari Push Notifications in OS X Mavericks, a feature set to activate when the next-generation operating system launches this fall.
The email shortly summarizes the Apple Push Notifications Service, which developers can use to send notifications to website users via Safari in OS X Mavericks. A picture of the implementation, seen above, was included in Wednesday's email and also shows up on Apple's Developer webpage.
Safari's push notification service is one of the many additions Mavericks will bring to OS X. Apple notes the service will work in much the same way as app notifications, pointing out that pop-up message boxes will include a website's icon, text and webpage link. In addition, users will be able to receive messages even when Safari isn't running.
As of now, notifications in OS X are limited to apps, accessible from Mountain Lion's Notification Center. Mavericks will for the first time bring Web-based notifications to Apple's desktop OS.
Developers are asked to visit the Safari Push Notifications webpage on Apple's Developer Center portal for further information on how to start implementing the service into their websites.
Currently being seeded to developers in beta form as Developer Previews, OS X 10.9 Mavericks is slated to launch sometime this fall along with a maintenance update for Mountain Lion.
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52 Comments
Looks like they're getting closer!
Great. One more way for web page designers to annoy us. I'm assuming it can be turned off. I hope that they're not allowed to make it a requirement.
I love 10.9 so far (truly, it is gorgeous), but this is simply a fucking annoyance. I hope nobody uses it.
I hope it is widely used! Stop being dense, guys. You realize this is opt-in, right? If you want a website to let you know stuff even when the browser isn't running, you ask it to do that. It's your choice. It's a service a developer may elect to provide you, for your own damn convenience. Why are you making this sound like a system-level spamming service? As if that's something Apple would do.
This sounds like it will be used basically for pop-up adverts about 99% of the time. Visit a website? It sets a cookie that sends you "notifications" every day. It's up to you the end user to figure out what happened and how to get rid of it.