Unfortunately they’d probably have to rewrite everything from scratch to get it to work that way.

Well, a positive user experience is a must if they want Snarl to catch on bigtime. Having to rewrite an app from scratch is every developer’s nightmare but hey, it’s a tough business.

The downside of Snarl is that you’ll have to keep the Snarl service running in the background if you want to use their notification system. I hope that they’ll come up with a standalone DLL that can work around this.

That would be cool, and I’m sure more people would be willing to install it if that were the case. That way it would use any resources unless a notification was being displayed. Unfortunately they’d probably have to rewrite everything from scratch to get it to work that way.

The downside of Snarl is that you’ll have to keep the Snarl service running in the background if you want to use their notification system. I hope that they’ll come up with a standalone DLL that can work around this.

Ok, so where was this when I was actually into Windows?

Well, it’s been out for over a year. So it was probably available when you were into Windows, but you just didn’t know about it. This kind of thing takes awhile to catch on though since it has to have extensions for popular applications before anyone will start using it.

Good idea, but it’s really Microsoft who should be implementing a notifications system in Windows. Maybe they’ll buy these guys.

That would be awesome especially if this application takes off. That way they will already have people who’ve adopted the technology, and they can just continue to advance it. Apple’s kinda in the same boat where at this point they’d have to implement things the same way that Growl does since so many different apps leverage its technology.

It was slow for awhile, and hopefully the added polish will attract more developers to implement the feature.