Chrome's TweetDeck Extension Notifications Take A Hit Thanks To New API Guidelines
Chrome’s TweetDeck extension just got a horrible update.
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.
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