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"can be", not "must be"...

Remember that we had real time webchat without JavaScript two decades ago, and a lot of other things that would probably turn into some sort of Chrome-only site if invented today.

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If you have a solution to giving iOS users the notifications they want via a web app, PWA or not, I'm all ears. We already implement text and email notifications.

Polling, long-polling, websockets? I feel like I'm missing some context here.

Isn't the issue getting notifications out through the OS notification system?

Unless I'm misunderstanding something about the problem, I don't do iOS dev or any webdev complicated enough to require OS notifications.

The Push API allows for efficient push notifications without polling, I believe, but don't quote me on it. The problem is displaying notifications like you would a message notification on iOS.

> The problem is displaying notifications like you would a message notification on iOS.

As an iPhone user, this being difficult for developers is a highly desirable feature!

It would be opt-in like on every other platform, isn't that enough? As heavyset_go said, it's a huge pain when a user wants a notification and can't enable one.

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