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by Meai 5530 days ago
Please don't take it personally, but I would never use that and neither should anyone else. First of all, building a 'notification system' is incredibly easy, it's just javascript popups. Reading through your code and adapting it to my own application would be a waste of time. Pick any decent js framework and you can do this within fractions of an hour. Secondly - don't do popup notifications ever. They are the antithesis of user intent. Nobody ever 'wants' to see a popup.
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    First of all, building a 'notification system' 
    is incredibly easy, it's just javascript popups.
No it's not "just javascript popups". Notification systems are clean, and non-intrusive ways of notifying the user of an important event or alert. There is no such thing as "just javascript popups". It takes an understanding of both UX and UI to create.

    Secondly - don't do popup notifications ever. 
    They are the antithesis of user intent. Nobody 
    ever 'wants' to see a popup.
I rarely "go with the grain", but I think Apple, Ubuntu, and a huge amount of web applications would say you're wrong. Users like to be notified of things, but they don't like to be interrupted. Notifications like this are the best way to achieve this.
> I rarely "go with the grain", but I think Apple, Ubuntu, and a huge amount of web applications would say you're wrong.

I don't think you understand what a notification is. A notification is purely for informational purposes. Popups in general can sometimes be better than the alternative.