Chrome 28 Beta Brings the New Rich Notifications Google Has Been Working on for Months
The latest Chrome beta didn't just bring faster HTML parsing, it also marks the debut of rich notifications. The feature has been available for a few months, but it hasn't been enabled by default in the beta channel, Google has just been experimenting with it.
But rich notifications are now ready for a wider release. With this, Google Now for the web is one step closer to becoming a reality.
"We’re enabling Chrome apps and extensions to show richer notifications with a revamped user interface," Google explained.
"We’ve designed these notifications to be beautiful, useful and engaging. They can display formatted text and images, and can include actions directly inside the pop-up (so you can respond to that email right away)," it added.
The new rich notifications are designed to look like desktop notifications, though they don't integrate with the operating system but rather share a common look across devices.
Apps and extensions can use the notifications to alert users to things happening in the background. There's also a new notification center, you'll notice it in the system tray, to access notification history.
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