Do Chrome Apps support badges (red bubble) in the app icon? - google-chrome-app

I was very surprised to not find any API endpoint for showing badges (red bubble) on app icons. I was expecting something similar to browser action badges - which has been available for extensions for a long time. I imagine it would look something such as:
chrome.app.setBadgeText({
text: ""
});
I see this has already been discussed in issues (311878, 239575, 143219), but suspect it might have gone a bit cold. This diff is promising, but does anyone have any other insight or know when it's planned to be completed?

The bug is probably the best place to get info about it. As mentioned there it has gone a bit cold as we have some higher priorities, but I expect we'll get to it when time permits.

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Paypal Donations Thermometer Needed

i'm on the hunt & coming up short for a simple thermometer, meter, progress bar, or something similar that can automatically track how much is given via a Paypal Donation Button, & show how far it has to go to reach a set goal.
we don't need suggestions for sites like GoFundMe.com & the like. and we are NOT using Wordpress! just need a PHP &/or Javascript/Jquery script that can use Paypal's current API/IPN & animate a visual indicator of how much has come in & how much there is to go in a fundraiser.
i HAVE done my due diligence & am at a loss.
i like the Progress Bar TotalDonations.com has, but don't need all that other stuff. besides, it's a Wordpress plugin.
i really like the Thermometer at AprendaGames.com/wordpress-goal-thermometer-widget has, but again, it's a Wordpress plugin :-(
i know Paypal had a widget some years ago, but not anymore. oh, and do NOT want anything that relies on Flash.
if nothing like what i'm wanting exists, then i'm willing to hear how much it would cost & how long it would take to make one.
thanks.
Check out codepen there is a Donation Progress Bar open-sourced at: /stemlund/pen/Bkvyj
It has HTML/CSS just add the

Testing Facebook Messenger Scan Code

Facebook recently announced the introduction of messenger codes which can be used to add new contacts and, more importantly, communicate directly with businesses and business pages (which is why I'm interested in it).
It took me ages to find it but on the bottom left of the messages tab on my Facebook page I have the option to download my code in three different sizes - clicking the disc will open a modal window where you can click the Download button and choose from 300, 600 or 1000px PNG file downloads.
NOTE: While they are PNG files the background is not transparent which seems like a bit of an oversight to me but hey ho that's what Photoshop is for I guess.
The problem is that while I can download my code I can't find any way to test it on printed materials (or even electronically at the moment!). The scanning feature doesn't seem to have been rolled out for me yet (I tried re-installing the Messenger app to see if I got a newer version but that didn't work) and nor for anyone I know (I'm in the UK). The codes are bespoke to Messenger so can't be scanned or tested using any other app.
I'm probably too far ahead of the game but is there any way I can test to see if my code scans correctly, or anywhere I can go to find out? I would like to use it on some promotional material which is likely to be long term materials that I don't want to have to update in the near future (several years, by which time it's likely these codes will be more commonplace).
I also need to know what the redundancy is like. For example the high redundancy QR codes I generate can have up to 30% of the code covered while still being usable, which is great for design purposes. I can't find any official documentation as yet for these codes at all, let alone what is required, what the spec. is etc.
I know the most likely option is 'sit and wait' but I really would rather not if possible. I've never been very patient...
Thanks
UPDATE: My Messenger app has now been updated so I can test, but I'm leaving this here in case anyone knows of another way to test perhaps? If someone doesn't have Messenger on their phone for example.

Wordpress/Facebook Comments are displayed overlayed on Wordpress blog

I need help with a problem I'm facing, basically I'm utilizing the new "Facebook Comment Box" feature and the issue is it is overlaying with standard Wordpress comments. It is best described by showing you the following screenshot:
Because I'm new here I couldn't post a screenshot because I don't have enough rep so a link to the screenshot of the problem is here - http://www.wdbc.org.au/comment_screenshot.jpg
The true URL for the above screenshot is here
So I did some investigating around, I couldn't find anyone else who came across this problem, but I also found that it is a combination of factors which makes encountering it more rare. Below are some specifics on what I'm using, and factors I believe are contributing to this problem:
Wordpress 3.1
Wordpress Theme Genesis1.5
Wordpress Plugin Facebook Comments for WordPress 3.1
Wordpress Plugin The Events Calendar 1.6.5
Google Chrome Browser 10.0.648.204
Some important notes on this problem:
It does not happen for the same URL in Explorer or Firefox, only in Chrome
It only happens in Wordpress posts tagged as Events so the events calendar plugin is definitely part of the issue here (for example I don't see the overlap issue on a non-event post which does not utilize the Events Calendar plugin)
My thoughts:
The plugin "The Events Calendar" has something to do with this. The plugin adds some information at the top of the post such as Date, Address, Cost, etc, and the height this information takes up seems to be about exactly the height the wordpress comment is encroaching on the space of the facebook comment section.
I don't have enough Wordpress expertise to dig deeper in to this and determine what is wrong with either the Events plugin or the Chrome browser and I'm not really sure where to start. I would really appreciate if anyone can help provide some tips or guidance on how I could progress with this issue. If you need any further details just ask and I would be happy to share, thank you.
Edit: Same problem observed in Safari (on iPhone) so impacts Chrome/Safari not Firefox/Explorer.
Edit2: On further testing it looks like this is only impacting retrospectively. I created a new Event post and it works fine, but older Event posts are affected. I guess this makes the issue not as impacting as I first thought so I might be able to live with this.
It might have something to do with the like button. I use a plugin for wordpress that also includes the like button. I chose to hide it, and all is good. I will enable the like button using another plugin.

facebook load xd_proxy.php while scrolling

Hi anyone have idea what's going on with the iframe apps on facebook keep loading the xd_proxy.php? I haven't notice it's a new or existing issue because my apps screen is fix, today, when I change some code,I scrolling the screen with my mouse, and discover that the xd_proxy is loading while scrolling(no matter use mouse wheel, kb arrow, scroll bar..), I search some posts in the google and stack overflow, but with no luck, none of them can solve it, I've try add the channelurl, rearrange the javascript...etc, but no luck, please help, thanks in advance.
This is logged as a bug in Facebook's bug tracker now. Best way to get it fixed is to vote for it!
http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=16176
Facebook fixed a bug we have been waiting on in their JS SDK this week so we were planning on switching from the old JS SDK to the new but during final testing came across this as well. Looks like window location is being reported back.
Anyone know if this is new and what exactly it is used for? Can it be disabled? Wonder what this would do to performance across different environments.
This starts happening after FB.init in window.fbAsyncInit is called with de JS SDK. It is passing height and width of the client and scroll as parameters with type canvasPage.update. It might, but I do not know, have something to do with a bug earlier this year when apps in iframes weren't resizing, something like a work around.
I just noticed this today as well, and initially thought it was due to FB.Canvas.setAutoResize() being called surreptitiously, but nope, it seems like scroll has been bound to this update.

iPhone SDK: Ideas on how to implement a help facility for application

We we wondering what are some ways developers have added a help function to their apps. What are some techniques people have used?
One way we were thinking of is to us UIWebView to display a HTML file with help instructions.
Thoughts appreciated.
I'm using UIWebView right now which pretty much contains all the help in a single page, along with some JQuery things to display popups, etc. But I like the way iCab Mobile (et al.) are doing things which is a sectioned UITableView with each row a separate topic or section within their overall help information (complete with icons...) then in their bundle they have each section in its own html file, organized by localization.
Another thing in my queue for the next release is to provide a dynamic "News" view. The rough idea is as follows... I have on my server a file or CGI where I can place small bits of news I'd like to push out to users. On startup, my app checks for network availability and if present, start a thread to see if anything has changed on the server since last updating the News data. If changes present, post an alert letting user know, and asking if they'd like to read it now. At that point, the latest news is already downloaded and cached, so they can simply read it later if they want, and I won't post anymore alerts until the server file changes again. (And one could add a preference/setting to disable these alerts.)
I'm thinking this would be a good way to let people know that some nasty bug is known and fixed and an update is sitting in the queue, solicit beta testers, promote upcoming features or other apps, etc. I can see where constant alerts everytime I've got something new to promote would get annoying, so having a setting to disable them means the user never has to read them unless they want to. Although some kind of override to warn of recently discovered/fixed bugs seems sensible.
FWIW, the author of Mover+/Mover has just started doing a similar thing, though I think Emanuele is perhaps only showing one Notelet at a time, whereas I envision a bit more of a history (shown in UIWebView) until I decide to age stuff off the bottom of the stack.
I'm using a scroll/page view to show several images containing small notes. Each image then tells the user about the more advanced functions on a specific part of the app.
In my opinion the help should only contain information that isn't a 100% relevant for the use of the application. It should be things the advanced user should use to make more use of the app. It should contain gold for the power users. The "basics" should be so obvious that no help would ever be needed. If that's not the case, I think, you've failed as a developer on the iPhone platform.
(Here's a screen shot from my demo app)
I'm currently creating a fairly complicated app. I'm thinking of doing help as a semi-transparent overlay - help in text form is hard to swallow for users; it's much more helpful to just point at stuff and say "this does that".