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Mozilla Engineers Working On Getting RSS Feeds To Web
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What it looks like is a way to drag the concept of RSS feeds into Web 2.0.
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Saturday, February 04, 2012:
Mozilla engineers are now working on a new API for websites. This new API will allow them to notify you when they update you and will function in a similar fashion as mobile app notifications. It will alert you when it has new content, waiting to be checked. What it looks like is a way to drag the concept of RSS feeds into Web 2.0.
Jeff Balogh, a Web developer at Mozilla, explained in a blog post that this push application programming interface is designed similar to push services on iOS and Android to the entire Web. He wrote, “We want to make notifications available to the whole Web. We’re making prototypes and designing the API right now and want to share our progress.”
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Balogh describes the process as mentioned below:
1. The website gets a URL where it can send notifications to the user. The URL points to the Notification Service, and is a secret between the user and the website.
2. The site sends a notification to the Notification Service.
3. The Notification Service delivers the message to Firefox on the desktop, on Android, on Boot to Gecko, or on iOS through Firefox Home; we’ll find the right place to deliver the message.
To start sending push notifications, a website needs to ask the user for permission.
He wrote that the idea behind the service was to show notification only once. So if the user has dismissed the notification once, it will not appear again. This seems to be a good stand keeping in mind the multiple device, cross-platform world that we live in.
He also provided a chunk of example code and also guided to the wiki page of the API project.
Diksha P Gupta, EFYTIMES News Network
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