Getting HTML5 going

[William Prothero]

Richard and Sean:
My app is desktop. One of the actions is clicking on a map to specify a data (of various kinds) profile across a great circle path. You really need a mouse to accurately select a point (although there are ways of magnifying small area to get precise location).

Anyway, it does seem that if the app is sandboxed, it would be safer to download scripts. For now, I’m updating an older 32 bit version to work in 64 bit and will then consider what kind of further upgrades I want to implement.

But, what I really would need to verify before I go that way, is whether Catalina allows livecode script to be downloaded and executed by the engine. Richard, it looks like you say it will, but Sean says no. 

Best,
Bill

William A. Prothero
https://earthlearningsolutions.org

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 12:07 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Bill Prothero wrote:
> > Richard and Sean,
> > Good ideas. I had considered deploying it as a standalone that has
> > sections that udate from a server, but worried that the new security
> > requirements from Apple, in particular, discouraged (prohibited?)
> > downloading code. Is that not true?
> 
> Is this desktop or mobile?
> 
> Just curious, really. In either case, downloading scripts is quite different from downloading executable object code.  Any sandboxing for the app is done to the LC engine - swap out scripts all you like and you can't alter what the user has allowed the standalone engine to do.
> 
> I think Apple's main concern would be an app that presents itself as one thing and later morphs into something else.
> 
> But if we use downloads responsibly, scripts are really just another form of data, much like spreadsheet formulas. I can't see a reason Apple or anyone else would have an issue with an app downloading data, and I know a good many devs using a wide range of scripting tools that update dynamically.
> 
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> Richard Gaskin
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