As a user, I want the chat portlet to support desktop notifications on all major browsers

• Type: Story
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.1.1 CE GA2, 6.1.20 EE GA2
• Fix Version/s: 6.1.X EE, 6.2.0 CE B1, 6.2.0 CE B2
• Component/s: Chat, Legacy Components > Unified Communications
• Labels: None
• Branch Version/s:
  6.1.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed
• Epic/Theme:
  • Quick_Win

Back when we implemented desktop notifications for the Chat Portlet, Chrome was the only browser that offered an API to do that. Which means that we're currently using a webkit-prefixed API that is not available on any other browser.

Instead, the new W3C-defined API should be used (http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/) which would allow to support Firefox 22+, Safari 6+ and Chrome 20+. I think for future Liferay versions it is not necessary to keep the webkit-prefixed API as this is only required for Chrome version 5 to 19.