"Many OS X apps use Growl to display notifications to the user. They use either Distributed Objects or a UDP protocol called GrowlTalk to post the notifications, neither of which is suitable for a client-side web app. Google Gears promises to provide NotificationAPI at some point, but it’s not currently ready. Fluid also has a notification API, but we need Firefox’s Greasemonkey plugin to inject some JavaScript."
Specto is a desktop application that will watch configurable events (such as website updates, emails, file and folder changes, system processes, etc) and then trigger notifications.
Yowl is a way of providing notifications to users of web applications, but in a way that the user themselves can control. It was inspired by Growl, which runs on the Mac
Yowl is a way of providing notifications to users of web applications, but in a way that the user themselves can control. It was inspired by Growl, which runs on the Mac