On 1 Oct 2013, at 18:26, Marcel Weiher <marcel.wei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Oct 1, 2013, at 13:02 , Dave <d...@looktowindward.com> wrote: > >> >> 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? > > As far as I can tell, that link delivers an ics file, “event.ics”, which is > then opened automatically by the OS (also happens for ics attachments in > Mail). Since this only writes to the calendar and the original stink that > caused restrictions was about reading calendar/address book info and > uploading that to a server, I guess Apple finds that OK. > > Now I don’t remember any sanctioned ways to open a file without user > interaction, so this might not actually help you... > > Marcel > > > —— snip —— > BEGIN:VCALENDAR > VERSION:2.0 > CALSCALE:GREGORIAN > PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN > METHOD:PUBLISH > BEGIN:VEVENT > DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131005 > DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131006 > SUMMARY:Policing Through the Ages > LOCATION:Gunwharf Quays > DESCRIPTION:Policing Through the Ages - > http://m.gunwharf-quays.com/whats-on/policing-through-ages > URL:http://m.gunwharf-quays.com/whats-on/policing-through-ages > END:VEVENT > END:VCALENDAR > —— snip —— So, I could send a pre-made .ics file to Safari? Dave _______________________________________________ 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
