iosiphonenotifications
Two of the iPhone's default apps, Weather and Stocks, create little widgets in the Notification Center. They aren't exactly notifications, can display graphics (weather) or animations (stock ticker), and don't disappear after being tapped.
I have not seen any other apps that do this. Do any other apps use widgets like this? Or is this exclusive to Apple's apps?
I'm a Mac OS X developer and I just finished adding Notification Center support to my app. For what it's worth, here's what I found out:
I have no idea if this is a bug in Safari or Notification Center, or both. However, I am fairly confident that there is nothing you can do about the second issue (there might be a hidden defaults setting for the first one, but I haven't heard of it). I did check the WebKit API Specification, to make sure it's not something that the individual websites are doing, and you can rule out websites from your suspect's list, because they do not have any control over the notifications.
I guess we'll have to wait and see if Apple will address this in its next bug fix release (10.9). However, by the looks of it, not showing notifications when the app is frontmost is a "feature", so don't get your hopes up.
You could ssh to the destination machine and run the following for each notification.
osascript -e 'display notification "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" with title "Title"'
Alternatively, there are a number of ways of running AppleScript remotely. You can do it with Keyboard Maestro, which allows you to run macros (that can run AppleScript) over the network:
Best Answer
3rd party widget development is not currently supported by the standard iOS SDK (as of iOS 6). You can not find any other apps to show a widget similar in use to weather and stocks in the notification center.
You could jailbreak the device to run custom widgets, however. The jailbreak community has created many widgets.