Yip is a unified notification system for web apps

When a desktop app does something that needs your attention, you know about it because of system-wide notifications. With web apps, on the other hand, it's easy to miss something that happens when your apps are open in another window or tab. Yip aims to solve that problem by offering a unified web app notification system in Firefox.

Yips is a Firefox port of the notification APIs from Fluid and Prism (the two major ways to turn web apps into desktop apps). With the Yip add-on installed, Firefox will display alerts in your browser window for web app events like an incoming message in the popular multi-chat app, Meebo, or a new reply in the Twitter client Filttr. In fact, Yip will work with practically any site that supports either Fluid or Prism notifications.

If you're a Mac user, you get an added bonus: Yip is compatible with Growl, so you can customize it just like any other set of Growl notifications. With the popularity of web apps continuing to rise, it's somewhat amazing that a unified notification system hasn't been implemented at the browser level. Will we see something like Yip as a standard feature?

Tags: add-on, firefox, fluid, growl, notifications, prism, yip