Does anyone know why they're pushing this instead of plain old Server Sent Events (something w3c is already working on for servers to push to browsers)?
They're very different notifications. SSE is only useful if the user happens to have the website open. This new proposal is a replacement for emails - it lets you send asynchronous notifications to the user that he may receive even if he's not on your website and even if he was offline for a while.
They're very different notifications. SSE is only useful if the user happens to have the website open. This new proposal is a replacement for emails - it lets you send asynchronous notifications to the user that he may receive even if he's not on your website and even if he was offline for a while.