Note: Deprecating HTML Notifications in Chrome Extensions

The official developer Team of Chrome announces that with the release of the M28 developer channel of Chrome, they are deprecating HTML-based notifications for Chrome Extensions in favor of the new Rich Notifications Chrome API.

Therefore developers that are using HTML notifications should migrate to the newer Rich Notifications API, as support for the existing createHTMLNotification() feature will stop working in a future release of Chrome. ‘’At this time, the Rich Notifications API only works on Windows and
Chrome OS, but support for Linux and MacOS are coming soon. As the API is enabled on each platform, the existing HTML Notifications API will be removed for that platform.’’

Explanations:

‘’When the W3C introduced the web notifications API, they originally specified two flavors: plain text notifications and richer HTML-based ones. The W3C has since removed the HTML option from the spec. To be more consistent with the W3C API while still supporting a richer notification format, we made the decision to follow their example and remove support for HTML notifications in Chrome Extensions. ‘’