Push Notification from Website?

keepkeyyellow

So I've noticed when I go onto The Journal or the Guardian on my iPhone a push notification comes up suggesting to download the app for their sites and after an hour of google searching I can't find the method of doing this.

Anyone know a tutorial that explains how to do this? I just want to suggest making a bookmark of the site on the phone.

Draco

It's not a push notification, it's a javascript alert. It gets popped up based on the user agent - if you can figure out it's a mobile device you get it to display.

Creamy Goodness

It's fairly easy I'll post a tutorial on how to do it when I get home.

Johnny Jukebox

Check out Richfaces 4 for real push functionality;

http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/GettingStartedWithRichFaces40Push

Creamy Goodness

if the user agent matches an iOS UA string and cookie "seen_ios_prompt" is not set.
    <script type='text/javascript' src='js/ios_prompt.js'></script>
else
    do nothing.

var is_iPad=navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i) != null;
if(is_iPad) {
    var redirect = confirm("Download our ipad app");
    var redirect_url = 'http://meathspin.com';
}
else {
    var redirect = confirm("Download our iphone app");
    var redirect_url = 'http://meathspin.com';
}

$.cookie("seen_ios_prompt", "1", {expires:1095});

if(redirect == true) { 
    window.location = redirect_url;
}

sample assumes you have some sort of jquery included, can be done without though.

this also taken from my head and from me fresh out of the pub so there may be errors but general gist is there.

keepkeyyellow

Thank you all especially Creamy Goodness! I guess the problem was I didn't know what it was actually called, I'll have a whack at this when I get back to free wifi on college on Monday and see how it goes