Tech

We are happy to announce that desktop notifications for new messages on Flow are now available also for Internet Explorer.

Unfortunately, Internet Explorer has its own rules for popups, which by default do not allow these notifications to show unless Internet Explorer window is on the top.

To show new message notifications even when other programs are open, please do the following:
1. On Tools menu, choose Internet Options.

2. Open Security tab. For these modified settings to not affect all websites, choose Trusted sites first, then click Sites and add your Flowr network to the list.

Now click on Custom level button. Scroll down to Miscellaneous category and find option named Allow script-initiated windows without without size or position constraints. Choose Enable under it and click OK.

Due to these security limitations in IE, you will not see notifications if your IE window is minimized or you have another IE tab open.

Flowr desktop notifications are also available for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

While we’re hard at work on new and improved iPhone client, we’ve rolled out a small change that will allow our Flowr networks that use Google Apps to also use iPhone client. Because the way Google Apps work, you’ll have to set yourself a ‘mobile’ password that you will then use with iPhone Client.

To set your mobile password, login to your Flowr network and set the password in ‘Mobile access’ tab. Use your company e-mail as username.

This step is necessary only for Google Apps users.

As Real-Time evolved as the next evolutionary step for the Web, it’s time to start looking into the future. What will the next steps look like, what technologies are emerging and available today and what do we still need to build in order to enable next generation of Web Applications.

Matjaž Lipuš, our CTO,  covered these questions in his technical talk at RealTime WebCamp this past weekend. There are lots of useful tips and bits of experience hidden inside: