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Notifications in all browsers

Is there any notification system that works with all major browsers? I know that chrome has its own notification API, Safari has push notifications, and IE has attachments, but is there another general way to show notifications? I found https://github.com/ttsvetko/HTML5-Desktop-Notifications that uses a combination of different notifications (although I still can’t show the demo in IE).

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Is there some kind of notification system that works with all major browsers?

The mechanism, defined at https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/ , is the only standard notification system for web applications that should work the same in all browsers. It is supported in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, but not at all in IE or Edge.

I found https://github.com/ttsvetko/HTML5-Desktop-Notifications that uses a combination of different notifications (although I still can't get the demo to work in IE)

Yes, the only thing I saw is trying to get some kind of notification system for web applications running in IE or Edge.

But in any case, the real solution is that Edge implements the web standard mechanism defined in https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/

Update 2016-02-12

Recently, Microsoft Edge has moved the status of web notification support to Edge in In Development. At the same time, they also moved the support status of Web Push in Edge to the priority of the roadmap: high - we intend to begin development in the near future.

Once the Edge servers are supported, you can send standard push notifications to Edge, Chrome, and Firefox users, even if your users don’t actually open your web application.

Update 2017-09-13

It seems that Edge now supports web notifications. Push support is now marked as "Development".

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