Webkit Notifications on Multiple Tabs

Question

I am using WebKit Notifications for my app. Say if I am using this code:

var n = window.webkitNotifications.createNotification(
   'icon.png',
   'New Comment',
   'Praveen commented on your post!'
);
n.onclick = function(x) { window.focus(); this.cancel(); };
n.show();

PS 1: The first five lines are actually a single line. Just for readability I have posted this way.

PS 2: For the full code, please see this: Unable to show Desktop Notifications using Google Chrome.

My question is, what if I have more than one tab opened?

Say if this is gonna get fired when a new comment appears on my app. What if I have more than one tab open? Will this generate many notifications? Say, I have 10 - 15 tabs open and I get two notifications fired. How many notifications will be generated, 20 - 30?

If that is the case, how to prevent generation of a single notification multiple times for each opened tab?

Answer 1

A detailed explanation of Tagging notifications so only the last one appears is available on the MDN docs site

An excerpt of the code [just in case the docs go down]

The HTML

<button>Notify me!</button>

The JS

window.addEventListener('load', function () {
  // At first, let's check if we have permission for notification
  // If not, let's ask for it
  if (Notification && Notification.permission !== "granted") {
    Notification.requestPermission(function (status) {
      if (Notification.permission !== status) {
        Notification.permission = status;
      }
    });
  }

  var button = document.getElementsByTagName('button')[0];

  button.addEventListener('click', function () {
    // If the user agreed to get notified
    // Let's try to send ten notifications
    if (Notification && Notification.permission === "granted") {
      for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
        // Thanks to the tag, we should only see the "Hi! 9" notification
        var n = new Notification("Hi! " + i, {tag: 'soManyNotification'});
      }
    }

    // If the user hasn't told if he wants to be notified or not
    // Note: because of Chrome, we are not sure the permission property
    // is set, therefore it's unsafe to check for the "default" value.
    else if (Notification && Notification.permission !== "denied") {
      Notification.requestPermission(function (status) {
        if (Notification.permission !== status) {
          Notification.permission = status;
        }

        // If the user said okay
        if (status === "granted") {
          for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
            // Thanks to the tag, we should only see the "Hi! 9" notification
            var n = new Notification("Hi! " + i, {tag: 'soManyNotification'});
          }
        }

        // Otherwise, we can fallback to a regular modal alert
        else {
          alert("Hi!");
        }
      });
    }

    // If the user refuses to get notified
    else {
      // We can fallback to a regular modal alert
      alert("Hi!");
    }
  });
});