Your favorite websites can now send notifications to Chrome on Android
Support for push notifications was the most important feature in last week’s Chrome 42 release — and starting today you’ll begin to see why. Today, several websites including eBay, Facebook, Pinterest, Vice News, and Product Hunt will begin to offer Chrome push notifications on both desktop and Android. It’s that last platform that’s a big deal: websites that support Chrome push notifications can send out updates that look and feel like regular app updates even if the Chrome browser isn’t currently active on an Android device.
When visiting a site that supports notifications, you will receive a prompt asking you if you’d like to turn them on. When you do, that website can send you push notifications whether you have the browser open or…
Source:: The Verge
