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[ADDON][BETA] Favicon with Notifications Started by emanuele · · Read 8430 times 0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic. previous topic - next topic

[ADDON][BETA] Favicon with Notifications

To make @meetdilip happy, here it is a first beta of an addon that adds the number of notifications to the favicon of your browser. :)

Completely untested the installer, apart from that the addon is pretty basic, and shoud Just WorkTM... as usual! xD

I used this pre-made js library:
https://github.com/ejci/favico.js
it's not as flexible as I wanted at the beginning[1], but for now will do.

As soon as I set up a github repo I'll post it to the addons site. ;D
1 I would like to be able to add two notifications at once: one for mention/alerts and one for PMs, but with that library I can add only one number at a time... well, less code to write. :P↵

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Neat idea lol..but won't it be tough if there are more than 9 notices? AFAIK the favicon is 16x16 image...not alot to put something else into.

Strike that, I read on the favicon specs that they can be bigger actually. But still, on my chrome tabs they are miniscule things...

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I guess so, in such a tiny space you can't put much...
I think mobile devices use different favicon sizes but probably not for the tabs, but for bookmarks and/or other stuff like that, so probably not "affected" but this trick.
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Fun :D Its actually easier to read when there are double digit values, at least on the demo page.

What is included in the notification totals?  (sure I could look at the code, but you know :P )

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The number next to the mentions menu. :P
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it's a good start ;) I'm pretty sure I'll use it when notifications will be more complete ;) I know you have some plans for 1.1 or next version
sorry for my bad english

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Hey... This is a nice addon. Thumbs up.

But I haven't started on android app notification yet.

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You know, you guys are simply awesome :love:

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I'm working a little bit to add that one to 1.1, with an additional ajax call to keep it up to date.
Objections? O:-)
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no objections, I only hope it will not be hungry in hosting resources ;)
sorry for my bad english

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I added a probing at 10 seconds (hard-coded, no interface to change it), if this kills a server... then the server is already dead to begin with. ;D
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While I was at it I shoved in also the desktop notifications (just fancy stuff :P).
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I'm done with it! https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/pull/2156
One less addon to support! :P
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QuoteOne less addon to support!
Brilliant !!!

 Spuds runs to put Elk on a feeding frenzy :P

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LOL
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