Icon in desktop notification

[Zoltan Lippai]

Hi there,

I was trying to set up desktop notifications for my website, but I'm stuck on setting the icon for the notification.

I've tried using Chrome stable (M25) and also Canary (M27) but both of them display the chrome or canary icon in the notification.

I'm starting to think that it may not be possible to do it on OSX.

Here is a code sample:

window.webkitNotifications.createNotification('https://webrtc.dev/images/notification/newMessage.png', 'Test', 'This is a test notification').show();

The png file is of course existing. I have also tried using relative URLs (e.g. /images/notification/newMessage.png) but it's the same result.

So is this because of OSX (I am using Mountain Lion with the Notification center) or am I doing something wrong?

Also, another quick question:

Is it possible to hide/replace the text that displays the domain of the site (shown in the attached picture, webrtc.dev).

Thanks a lot!

[Zoltan Lippai]

Just a quick note: I have tried to set a favicon so maybe it would get displayed, but unfortunately that didn't work either.

[Achin Sharma]

Is it for a chrome app? The page linked below mentions a bug that requires the mention of image icon in web_accessable_resources in manifest. Maybe that's your problem?

http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/notifications.html

[Zoltan Lippai]

No, it's not a Google Chrome app, it is a "website" created with ExtJS. It's more like a web application, but from Chromes point of view it is a simple website.

[Achin Sharma]

In that case I would suggest you look into html notifications. That way you can design your notification however you want. Even make them interactive. And as for hiding domain from notification, I am afraid it's not possible, for the same reasons as hiding url from the url bar is not possible. To let user know who made the notification.

[Zoltan Lippai]

Well, unfortunately here it says that createHTMLNotification is gone.

[Drew Wilson]

From your screenshot, it looks like you're using a Mac.

Chrome routes all notifications on the Mac through the native notification center. This has a few side effects:

1) Notifications are automatically hidden after several seconds

2) Notifications cannot set the icon (all notifications generated by Chrome are automatically given a Chrome icon by the Mac notification center).

It is not possible to hide the text that displays the domain of the site, because otherwise people could use notifications for phishing (for example, I could display a notification that says something like "You have a new friend request" that when you click on it actually takes you to evil.com with a fake facebook signin page).

Unfortunately, on the Mac, the notification center doesn't have a particularly good way to display this type of domain information so it's just stuck in the middle of the notification. On other platforms, we have more control over how notifications are displayed, so it looks a little less clunky (we display the domain on a thin header bar).

-atw

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[Zoltan Lippai]

Then it looks like my suspicion about OSX being the cause was right.

Thanks for the info, Drew!