Chrome's TweetDeck Extension Notifications Take A Hit Thanks To New API Guidelines

Evidently, when the all-powerful World Wide Web Consortium introduced the web notifications API, they originally specified both plain text notifications and richer HTML-based ones, but the latter have now been removed.

Thus, the unfortunate modification is a result of changes in the Chrome software.

If you use the TweetDeck extension in Chrome, you might have noticed the contrast between the old-style notifications and the new. Check out this side-by-side courtesy of Gizmodo:

Not only are the new notifications less aesthetically pleasing and useful – you can’t even read the whole tweet – you are no longer able to reposition notifications to pop up in any corner of the screen.