Fix support for displaying desktop notifications.

Review Request #9453 — Created Dec. 18, 2017 and submitted — Latest diff uploaded

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Review Board
release-3.0.x
4bcfa6a...

Reviewers

We landed a student project for displaying desktop notifications in
Review Board 3.0, but unfortunately the final revision did not work.
There were a handful of problems, starting with bad variable references
that simply prevented the browser from prompting for permission to
display notifications and prevented those notifications from ever being
displayed. There were other issues as well, such as hard-coded strings,
lack of click support for notifications, and no body text.

This fixes up the support to properly work. Now, users will be prompted
for permission when next viewing the review request page, and if
granted, a notification will be shown whenever the in-page updates
bubble would be displayed.

We are limited in what we can show in that bubble, in terms of the
structure and length of content. For now, the summary of the
notification matches the summary from the API ("Review request updated",
"Diff updated", "New review", etc.). The body then contains the review
request ID and the person who made the update. This isn't perfect, but
even as-is, the name gets cut off on macOS. Other platforms may impose
their own limitations as well.

Still, it's useful when not paying attention to the page. Going forward,
we may want to tweak the content for the notification (perhaps adding
more information in the API that we can use), and perhaps add action
support for things like viewing the diff, for platforms that support it.

Tested that notifications worked on Chrome and Firefox. I was prompted
when visiting the page, and then shown notifications any time the
updates bubble appeared.

Tested that clicking the notification reloaded the review request page.

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