I'm working on a browser-based application that needs to be able to get users' attention when the user receives an ining event, such as a message, even if the user has minimized the browser.
Searching gave me some good results, but nothing cross-browser or firefox-specific. I need to be able to support IE 7+ and FF 3.6+ (specific to the user base).
Here are the things I've looked at:
- Are there any JavaScript library for cross browser desktop notification?
- Make browser window blink in task Bar
So far, we used a simple javascript alert to get the tray icon to flash, but that created an extra click in trying to respond to the notification (total of 3 clicks now, or a 33% degradation). Users are expected to do this 20-50 times a day, so it will get really annoying really quickly.
Based on an example provided on Microsoft developers network, I made this simple prototype that worked well for IE, but it's IE-specific and will not work in other browsers:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Popup Example</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JScript">
function timeMsg()
{
var t=setTimeout("ButtonClick()",5000);
}
var oPopup = window.createPopup();
function ButtonClick()
{
var oPopBody = oPopup.document.body;
var myHeight = (window.screen.availHeight - 125);
var myWidth = (window.screen.availWidth - 350);
oPopBody.style.backgroundColor = "red";
oPopBody.style.border = "solid black 1px";
oPopBody.innerHTML = "Click outside <B>popup</B> to close.";
oPopup.show(myWidth, myHeight, 300, 75);
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<BUTTON onclick="timeMsg()">Display alert in 5 seconds</BUTTON>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Any suggestions on how to make this experience better without using an executable installed locally are greatly appreciated!
I'm working on a browser-based application that needs to be able to get users' attention when the user receives an ining event, such as a message, even if the user has minimized the browser.
Searching gave me some good results, but nothing cross-browser or firefox-specific. I need to be able to support IE 7+ and FF 3.6+ (specific to the user base).
Here are the things I've looked at:
- Are there any JavaScript library for cross browser desktop notification?
- Make browser window blink in task Bar
So far, we used a simple javascript alert to get the tray icon to flash, but that created an extra click in trying to respond to the notification (total of 3 clicks now, or a 33% degradation). Users are expected to do this 20-50 times a day, so it will get really annoying really quickly.
Based on an example provided on Microsoft developers network, I made this simple prototype that worked well for IE, but it's IE-specific and will not work in other browsers:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Popup Example</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JScript">
function timeMsg()
{
var t=setTimeout("ButtonClick()",5000);
}
var oPopup = window.createPopup();
function ButtonClick()
{
var oPopBody = oPopup.document.body;
var myHeight = (window.screen.availHeight - 125);
var myWidth = (window.screen.availWidth - 350);
oPopBody.style.backgroundColor = "red";
oPopBody.style.border = "solid black 1px";
oPopBody.innerHTML = "Click outside <B>popup</B> to close.";
oPopup.show(myWidth, myHeight, 300, 75);
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<BUTTON onclick="timeMsg()">Display alert in 5 seconds</BUTTON>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Any suggestions on how to make this experience better without using an executable installed locally are greatly appreciated!
Share edited May 23, 2017 at 10:34 CommunityBot 11 silver badge asked Oct 21, 2011 at 21:38 SologoubSologoub 5,3526 gold badges39 silver badges66 bronze badges 2- 2 People hate popups because they contaminated the entire web at one point. All major browsers build in ways to automatically eliminate them. Most anti-virus software also has plugins to eliminate popups. So, the only way to do this is inherently not web-like. – evan Commented Oct 21, 2011 at 23:05
- Thank you, Evan. I definitely share same sentiment from the user perspective. Since the application I'm working on is B2B, we have a bit more flexibility when it es to dictating settings. So, if there any suggestions that trigger pop-up blockers or other built-in browser security features that can be turned off by the user, that would be acceptable for this purpose. – Sologoub Commented Oct 21, 2011 at 23:11
3 Answers
Reset to default 0We ended up just going with Google Chrome Desktop Notifications and asking our clients to either user Chrome or Chrome Frame within IE. Notifications are augmented by playing a sound as an alert.
Here's the documentation on it: http://code.google./chrome/extensions/notifications.html
As old as it is: Here is some new stuff might solve the problem in ~> IE9
Use window.extern.msSiteModeSetIconOverlay api call.
Here is a reference
http://www.codeproject./Articles/117115/Using-Overlay-Icon-API-to-Make-Client-Notification
If you can dictate that the users will turn off popup blockers, then have a "setup" page.
That page has instructions on how to turn off popup blockers for you site and their/all browsers. Preferably with images showing what to do. Most browsers give a notice that a popup has been suppressed with a way of adding the site to a "white list".
Then initiate a popup on that page when they click a button or perform some other action. Then they can just follow the instructions and turn off the popup suppression.
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