“Apple is working on solutions that will help developers get more face time on the iPhone, but there are currently no plans to offer a “true” iPhone SDK that would allow developers to create native apps, a source at Apple has told Ars,” Jacqui Cheng reports for Ars Technica.
“The company is currently planning a handful of updates to Safari and the iPhone that may appease some of the common complaints about developing for the device. For example, Apple is currently jamming on adding offline storage capabilities to Safari—something that would rival Google Gears in being able to serve up web applications locally without having to access the Internet,” Cheng reports.
“Our source says that the project is entirely for the iPhone: ‘The entire purpose of all this work is to make the iPhone ‘SDK’ (WebKit) more usable,’ our source told us. Because of this, the SDK will remain web-based, he said, with the applications remaining constrained to HTML, CSS, and a nice splash of lemon-scented AJAX,” Cheng reports.
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About AAPL stock, my stock widget works, but I was mainly using this great little app called AAPLStockDock. It worked great until last month when it got completely stuck for me. I tried to contact the developer but no answer… Anyone having the same problem with AAPLStockDock 2.3 ?
Traveler – “safari cannot download this file”
But I’m still v1.0.2
I’m not too particularly interested in too many 3rd party apps, but itd be nice to have an open-source site where apple gets to test, pick, and choose the best and most stable ones to add from people out there… I’m sure, eventually, itll happen.
What I am more interested in is seeing some evolution of quicktime. Microsoft has itself added a competitor to flash with its new SilverLight. Id like to see apple take quicktime in an even more advanced, yet simple to use form. QuickWeb? iunno.
Because Flash sucks, that’s why.
Cree- Thanks for satisfying my curiosity!