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Hasn't Apple allowed browser apps that wrap UIWebKit well before Chrome? I'm pretty sure there were already stand-alone browser apps in the App Store before Ch
by statictype 14y ago
Hasn't Apple allowed browser apps that wrap UIWebKit well before Chrome?
I'm pretty sure there were already stand-alone browser apps in the App Store before Chrome came.
- marknutter 14y agoThere were for sure. Opera is one.
- ynniv 14y agoOpera Mini is not a browser but rather a view into a browser in The Cloud. All network connections and JavaScript evaluation happens elsewhere, and the phone displays the resulting image and proxies clicks back to the server. Apple's sticking point has always been code evaluation on the phone, and currently only permits JavaScriptCore to evaluate code retrieved over the network.
- saurik 14y agoYes: that was actually what I was intending to imply; specifically, that Google wasn't blazing trails here nor are they being given special exceptions.