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I am wondering you can release a windows client. Web is acceptable but not perfect (i.e. cannot provide notifications).

you can build it on .NET. Don't care about XP, FUCK THESE XP USERS.



You can provide notifications on the web. Support maybe limited to some browsers only but it is possible.

This works in Chrome: http://jsfiddle.net/dandv/wT26x/1/

I think Safari has a system for this too: https://developer.apple.com/notifications/safari-push-notifi...

Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/notification

CanIUse stats: http://caniuse.com/notifications


Although it's not quite the same as a native app, we already have built in support for desktop notifications on all browsers that support them, including some older WebKits.


so how about a tray icon? AFAIK there is no way to create one using HTML5.


What do you need the tray icon for...?


There are still a great many organizations that are using XP. It's a reliable and battle tested OS. Ignoring these users wouldn't be a good idea, I don't think.




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