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The issue affects UIWebView, which means it affects native apps too. Not quite to the same extent, naturally, but the issue is there. Perhaps Apple crippled UI
by alextgordon 16y ago
The issue affects UIWebView, which means it affects native apps too. Not quite to the same extent, naturally, but the issue is there.
Perhaps Apple crippled UIWebView as some kind of plausible deniability, so that they could go about their evil ways. /s
- jrockway 16y agoDoes Apple really want "native apps" that are really wrappers around web content they don't control?
- yaix 16y agoThat sort of app would be called a "web browser".
- cookiecaper 16y agoRight, and does Apple allow alternate web browsers? Last I knew they disapproved anything that competed with an iPhone built-in app, like Google Voice, which duplicated phone functionality.
- paxswill 16y agoYep. A couple I know off the top of my head are iCab and Opera.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoiCab and all other "browsers" on iOS are skins round the built in webkit. (It would be interesting to see if and how they are effected by this bug). Opera hasn't released its actual browser for iOS since doing so is banned by Apple's policies. Same for Mozilla. What they have released is Opera Mini which displays pages rendered by what is effectively a server-side browser.
- jankassens 16y agoApple took a long time to approve Opera, but they finally did: http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id363729560 http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id3637...
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoTheir mobile browser is called Opera Mobile, Opera Mini is something slightly different from a browser, for example it doesn't execute client-side javascript.