Colin Holgate <co...@verizon.net> wrote:


>>Apple do allow code that could also appear in Safari pages, HTML and 
>>Javascript would be ok, but no other code really.


This is not quite true - you're only allowed to download HTML and JavaScript (+ 
CSS) and execute it within a standard UIWebView.  This is why there are no 
genuine alternative browsers for iOS, they're limited to wrapping an alternate 
UI around Apple's web view implementation.

I think they're going to have to give in on this one eventually or get left 
behind - native apps are trending towards continuous deployment and A/B testing 
options like the web.  The boundaries are also incredibly hard to define.  A 
recent boundary pusher is Pathmapp, which lets you A/B test native apps on the 
fly by creating alternate .xib files (essentially native UI layout files for 
those not into iOS dev) and dynamically downloading and switching them from a 
remote server.  You could argue this is data, not code but clearly even this 
technical capability lets you change a live app from something Apple approved 
to something they would not have, since the layouts can reference new images 
and include controls that are connected up to code that wasn't used in the 
approved version.  Adobe's solution has the same security hole, in that you 
have a whole bunch of code included that was not testable at review time.

Mark
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