To Safari - probably not. You’d have to bring up the document interaction controller, which would bring up any app that supports ICS - which would bring up the Calendar app. That would do what you want, but it would also invoke a lot more UI…which seems like it’d be simpler to just allow access.
On Oct 2, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Dave <d...@looktowindward.com> wrote: > > 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/alex%40webis.net > > This email sent to a...@webis.net Alex Kac - President and Founder Web Information Solutions, Inc. "The person who is not hungry says that the coconut has a hard shell." -- African Tribal Saying _______________________________________________ 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
