Le Dim 21 juillet 2013 20:24, Chris Murphy a écrit :
On Jul 21, 2013, at 10:55 AM, "Nicolas Mailhot"
<nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net> wrote:
> (state-of-the-art as in, what are Google
> and Amazon using to notify their users of events? Mail messages!>
If you're talking about google calendar events, email is used only because
even with Chrome the pop-up notifications only work 1/2 the time.
It's used because it works reliably, sure
> They
> would be ROFL if they were reading this conversation. If it's not done
> yet
> I predict they'll integrate their phones and tablets and notify you of
> problems by mail in the next years.)
?? So you think it's a good idea to have low battery, critical software
updates, maybe a virus alert, appear to the user in an email? That really
makes no sense, but I'm otherwise not thinking what else you mean by the
above.
No, I think for *some* notification classes, async + reliable
system-agnostic delivery is better than transient
non-on-seen-it-and-anyway-gnome-suppressed-it popup
I think email is craptastic. There's too much of it in all forms.
But the
worst is the kind that comes from automated systems. I want less of this,
not more of it.
But every other system sucks more…
At least most MUAs have built-in filtering/classification capabilities
(under the user, not the designer control).
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Nicolas Mailhot