Ahead of the final unveiling of OS X Mavericks at tomorrow's media event and an expected public launch soon after, several high-profile websites including The New York Times and NBA.com have begun supporting the new Safari push notifications feature included with Mavericks, as noted by user Sky Blue in our forums. The feature allows users to subscribe to websites' notification services and have various types of alerts pushed to their Macs even when Safari is not running.
Push notifications in Mavericks may be a handy alternative to RSS or Twitter for many users, delivering clickable notifications directly to the users' desktops in a timely fashion.
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While several sites have already begun to go live with their notification services, accessible to users running the OS X Mavericks beta, others will undoubtedly be following suit as Mavericks officially launches to the public. MacRumors will be supporting the feature, allowing users to receive instant notifications whenever new articles are posted to the site.
OS X Mavericks is expected to launch to the public before the end of the month, but may arrive as soon as this week following the final introduction at tomorrow's media event.
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(View all)news updates will be cool, but how about notifications for replies to our threads, PMs, etc. That would make it even more useful for a lot of people.
Yep. Initially for us, it will be news stories. But adding PM, quotes, etc.... for forums could come after.
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I doubt websites will abuse it.
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!If it opens Firefox/Chrome, then I can see this being useful. Otherwise it's like iOS launching Apple Maps when you click an address - ********** annoying.
We need hear no more. Mac OS X is morphing into iOS...
Im pretty sure IOS Safari doesnt have push notifications... And a good feature is a good feature, maybe we should take the retina display out of macs because the iPhone had it first?