wouters_f's sandbox: Desktop notifications

HTML5 desktop notifications from your drupal site?

Let your users be notified LIVE from events (configurable per user role).
In the configuration section you can configure a socket server.
It will connect al your clients to this socket server.
You can also configure which roles should subscribe to which socket messages.

Configurable settings:

- socket server to connect to
- html5 notification options (sticky/image/url/close timeout/...)
- which channels a given role connects to

html5 desktop notifications

Uses the native HTML5 desktop notification api.

Supported browsers

At the moment: Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari

Message formatting

The socket server should send the message in the following format:

{
"title" : "I am the title", 
"description" : "I am the description", 
"image" : "notification_image_url", 
"sticky" : false, 
"silent" : false,
"sound" : "custom_mp3_file",
"autoClose" : true,
"autoCloseTime" : 3000,
"url": "http://url_to_go_to_when_clicked"
}