Chrome Beta adds independent notification Center

Just two days after the stable release of Chrome 27, Google continues to announce the launch of Windows, Mac and Linux versions of Chrome Beta. The most notable of this version is the addition of the Independent Notification Center feature, which is known to be available only to Windows versions.

Google said: "We have these notices designed to both the charming appearance of the vase, but also the intrinsic practicality." "Notifications and extensions from app can be translated into text display or image format, and include some action functions directly in the pop-up window."

Here is an example, as shown in the following figure:

Both the chrome and chrome operating systems support basic network notifications, but the vast amount of notifications prepared for apps and extensions in Chrome can be very informative. They can not only present similar lists and images of content, users can also directly on the above operation, is very convenient. Better still, the notification center is completely independent of the browser, and even if the browser has been shut down, the user will be able to receive notification messages.

Google provides developers with more detailed information, the contents are as follows: "In addition to the basic types of notification described above, users can use other formats, such as Picture format, you can visually display the preview of the image in the Notification center, or the list format, can be combined with multiple notifications from the app, to focus on a separate notice." For example, a mail app can use the manifest format type to display multiple unread messages in a single notification. In addition, users can specify different priorities for different notifications to determine how long they can stay on the computer screen before they are moved into the notification center, and then stay in the notification center until they are released by the corresponding app or user. ”

As a matter of fact, we've heard about the notification Center on the Windows system as early as January, but have not yet identified the issue. However, in March, Google for Windows version of the Chrome Canary joined the notification center, things suddenly clear many, more confirmed the previous speculation.

Since then, there have been changes in many ways, following the latest chrome beta notifications under Windows system:

In addition, the Chrome blog says: "Support for Mac will soon come!" But as we already know, early this month, the Mac version of Chromium has already appeared in the notification Center, and chromium blog has further confirmed that "the notification center will soon reach the Mac OS X and Linux system." ”

Many people think that the notification Center is a key factor in bringing Google Now to the desktop, and the pre-release of chrome and Chromium has already appeared in Google, though Google has not yet started using Google's now in Chrome beta, But developers of other apps and extended applications can use it to make rich notifications for their projects.

The notification center retains control of all current notifications and can pull the notification center at any time from the launcher on the chrome operating system or the Windows system tray. Users can see and clean all the alerts in the center, as well as access to settings to control them using apps, extensions, and Web features.

Before, we only saw the notification center support Google Drive and Gmail, and now it also supports Gmail offline and Google Calendar. In addition, the Third-party apps and extensions on the above images mean that Google has shared its rich notifications with companies that are developing apps for chrome.

If you're a developer, you can also start building your own rich alerts in your app or extended functionality. Google has a notify Test app and related documentation for developers to peruse, and the company will get feedback and support and help with Stack Overflow, mail and tracking management software.

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Official version of Chrome 28 will be launched in June, but we wouldn't be surprised if it were postponed until July. After all, it will be a big announcement by Google because it will be the first to launch blink instead of WebKit, so let's wait and see.