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William Devereux
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Nov 10, 2020

Improving notifications and badging in Microsoft Edge

Notifications are an important part of the web, helping users stay up to date about what’s going on. Earlier this summer we announced a set of changes to make notification requests less distracting f...
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Has anyone succeeded in getting notification badges on Windows taskbar yet?

if so please share your Windows version, Edge version and website. thanks

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Kam
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Nov 11, 2020
HotCakeX Not me. I have Outlook installed as a web app and notifications are enabled, but still don't see it.
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    Chris Love
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    Nov 12, 2020
    Microsoft will have to add code to Outlook to trigger badging in the icon
  • HotCakeX's avatar
    HotCakeX
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    Nov 11, 2020
    Okay
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      Jungkee_Song
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      Nov 11, 2020

      HotCakeX Kam, thank you for trying out with the Badging experience on Edge! In order for badging to work, the site's developer needs to support it using the badging standard. You can use this demo (Badging API Demo (badging-api.glitch.me)) to try out the behavior for yourself. This article also has more details on how the API works, including sample code (Badging for app icons (web.dev)). This demo should work on Edge 81 (and Chrome 81) and above. For background trigger though, you should have web push implementation on your site, and the user needs Windows 10 20H1 version or above.

       

      Thanks!

      Jungkee Song

      PM, Microsoft Edge

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        William Devereux
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        Nov 11, 2020

        Yes, thanks for all of the excitement about these features! I wanted to give everyone a heads up that we've discovered an issue with badging pinned sites on 20H2. If there are open tabs associated with the pinned site on the taskbar, the badge may not be displayed. Closing the tabs, however, will make the badge appear. We're working on a fix for this which will be rolled out in an upcoming OS patch.

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