On 1 Oct 2013, at 14:04, Mike Abdullah <mabdul...@karelia.com> wrote:
> > On 1 Oct 2013, at 14:00, Dave <d...@looktowindward.com> wrote: > >> >> On 1 Oct 2013, at 12:27, Roland King <r...@rols.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 1 Oct, 2013, at 7:02 pm, Dave <d...@looktowindward.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> This had reared it's ugly head again! I have been asked to add an event to >>>> the Calendar WITHOUT asking the user for permission as the Standard >>>> Manner. I basically said it couldn't be done based on feedback from here. >>>> However, I've was today shown this (See link below) and asked "if they can >>>> do it, why can't you?". >>>> >>>> http://m.gunwharf-quays.com/whats-on/policing-through-ages >>>> >>>> If you open the above link on an iPhone and then click the Add to Calendar >>>> button, you will that it appears to add an event to the calendar WITHOUT >>>> asking the user for permission! How does it manage to do it? I thought >>>> that the OS would intercept any Calendar access calls and show the Alert >>>> Box and ask the user for permission to access the Calendar, but this >>>> doesn't seem to be the case here. Is this because it's being run in >>>> Safari? Can I get the same behaviour from an iOS Native App? >>>> >>> >>> Yes probably because it's Safari which is trusted and the user clicking the >>> link is enough intent (and because it's Safari and Apple wrote it they get >>> to determine what constitutes user-intent). >>> >>> No you can't get that in a native iOS application. The user must consent to >>> any native non-Apple application accessing the calendar. >> >> So, what's stopping me or anyone else, running this in a Web View? That >> would get around it, wouldn't it? > > Feel free to try it. I suspect Apple's developers won't have been that naïve > though… > A quick try in TweetBot finds that link does nothing. Safari is performing special handling of the calendar event. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
