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… _______________________________________________ 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
