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Matt Gaunt in Dev Channel

Aug 3, 2016

Custom Notification Badges For All

A neat new feature in Chrome 53 (one of many) is the ability to customize the notification badge on Chrome for Android.

Web Push Interoperability Wins

Author: Matt Gaunt <- he is ace!

When Chrome first supported the Web Push API, it relied on the non-standard Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) sender ID and it’s protocol. Although it was proprietary it allowed the Web Push API to be made available to…

Web Push Payload Encryption

Author: Mat Scales

Prior to Chrome 50, push messages could not contain any payload data. When the ‘push’ event fired in your service worker, all you knew was the the server was trying to tell you something, but not what it might be. You then had to make a…