HTML5 Notifications

<script type="text/javascript">

  // Create the simplest notification
  new Notification("You have a simple notification");


  // Create a notification with body
  new Notification("The title", {body: "The body"});


  // Create a notification with events
  var title = "You have a notification";
  var options = {
      body : "Some details",
      onshow : function() { alert("The notification was created successfully!"); },
      onerror : function() { alert("The notification could not be created!"); }
  }
  var n = new Notification(title, options);


  // Create notifications with same tag for a chatroom session
  // Bob says "Hi"
  new Notification("Bob: Hi", { tag: 'chat_Bob' });

  // Bob says "Are you free this afternoon?"
  // as only one notification will exist,
  // the application creates another notification with the combined message using the same tag
  new Notification("Bob: Hi / Are you free this afternoon?", { tag: 'chat_Bob' });


  // Create a notification with invocation information
  // and use invoked event to determine and do something for that notification
  var title = "A notification for something";
  var options = {
      targetAction : "bb.action.DoSomethingForNotification", // If no target is specified, it will invoke the current application
      payloadURI : "some link"
  }

  // Create the notification
  new Notification(title, options);

  // Register to listen to invoked event
  blackberry.event.addEventListener("invoked", onInvoked);

  // Handle invoked event
  function onInvoked(onInvokedInfo) {
	     // Do something if the action is "BB.action.DoSomethingForNotification"
	     if(onInvokedInfo.action == "BB.action.DoSomethingForNotification") {
	         doSomething(onInvokedInfo.uri); // onInvokedInfo.uri is "some link"
      }
  }


  // Create a notification with invocation information that invokes other application
  var title = "A notification will invoke browser";
  var options = {
      target : "sys.browser",
      targetAction : "bb.action.OPEN",
      payloadType : "text/html",
      payloadURI : "the link"
  }

  // Create the notification
  // and when the user opens the notification item in UIB, it will invoke browser with "the link"
  new Notification(title, options);

<\script>

<script type="text/javascript">
  new Notification("You have a tagged notification", { tag: 'tagged_notification' });

  // Even the application is closed and the above object is destroyed,
  // you can still remove the notification
  Notification.remove('tagged_notification');
<\script>

<script type="text/javascript">
  var n = new Notification("You have a simple notification");

  // Automatically close the notification after an hour
  setTimeout("n.close()", 1000 * 60 * 60);
<\script>