Improve notifications about webogram HOT 10 CLOSED

I have been doing some quick tests with the tag attribute in the Notification object.

• I can arrange group and individual chats, so just one notification is shown for the same chat
• The problem is that each time you send a notification (new message), the screen is lighted and the sound is played (unless the phone is in silent mode).

So my idea is:

• Group notifications with the tag property.
• Only send a notification if there are no pending notifications for the chat. That means that you will get the first one (maybe the second one and say "multiple messages"?), and then no notifications are sent for the rest of the messages.
• Or even better, do the second point, but put a timestamp, so if I get a new message in a chat which the shown notification has been living for more than ¿5 minutes? make the notification again.

thoughts? :)

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Third option sounds good to avoid over notifying the user, but how is that going to work on desktop?

Probably on desktop you want to have them all.

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Sniffing user agent for (mobile || tablet) ?

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Sniffing UA is not clean.

Probably the first thing to do is group notifications for everyone, and then create a setting to always notify or just notify once.

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UA sniffing is not clean but it is the way we can check if we are in a mobile/tablet/desktop.

I think grouping is the first iteration, and I would go with not bothering the user if a notification for the same chas has arrived in the las 5 minutes. And keep the foundation for next iterations.

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Sounds good for me.

@zhukov what do you think?

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So the user will not know about new messages, except the first one?

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And notified again in 5 minutes if there is new messages. The thing is that I don't know how that work for desktop. The important first step is to group notifications, which doesn't affect desktop.

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Anyway, we can propose enhancements to current API in case we do not find these behaviours useful.

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UA sniffing is not clean but it is the way we can check if we are in a mobile/tablet/desktop.

What about Media Queries? Could be accessed via JS and if DPI and Size fits, the device could be detected.

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