Annoy mobile & desktop users through push notifications through the browser!
To say the least, the new power present in the combination of Google Chrome, Google Cloud Messaging (GCM), and a new HTML5 concept called service workers has the power to help you develop robust applications involving push notifications without the requiring the user to install an app from the App Store. Do not abuse it. You will make your users angry, and when you do that, then you make me angry. :-P Be careful when you devise use cases for the new processes outlined below. Here's the scoop: GCM now works with a relatively nascent feature in modern Web browsers called service workers. Service workers allow processes to continue running in the background even after a webpage is no longer open, thus allowing them to show push notifications, cache data, run background computations, and monitor various other system states. Below, you will see the very basic mechanism for sending a plain push notification in the browser. As you go along with ...