Getting HTML5 going

[William Prothero]

Sean:
Sorry, I guess the discussion got going onto issues of how to keep an app updated, which was a major feature of web deployment.

Thanks for all your input, Sean. Very helpful.
Best,
Bill

William A. Prothero
https://earthlearningsolutions.org

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 5:37 PM, Pi Digital via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> My apologies for the misunderstanding. I thought we were all still talking about HTML5 deployment with a small digression question regarding iOS. Somehow I missed the part where it got steered off into every other platform :)
> 
> Sean Cole
> Pi Digital
> 
> 
>> On 25 Mar 2020, at 23:34, William Prothero via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> What I was thinking of was distributing a fairly basic educational application, then adding features and lessons as life goes on. Sounds like it would depend on how extensive the features were. Perhaps lessons would only trigger a problem if they required the addition of significant new features. Hmmm…..
>> Best,
>> Bill
>> 
>> William A. Prothero
>> https://earthlearningsolutions.org
>> 
>>> On Mar 25, 2020, at 2:23 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 3/25/20 1:58 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> However there are two rules which must be followed:
>>>> 1) Downloaded code must not allow the app to access any more system provided APIs that it could before.
>>>> 2) Downloaded code must not allow the app to 'morph' (as Richard put it) into something even slightly unrelated to what it was at the point of review; nor should it add significantly different features (particularly in terms of UI).
>>>> In practice conforming to (1) is easy - you aren't allowed to download LCB extensions, loading them at runtime, which use FFI to access system functions.
>>> 
>>> My reading of 1) is that LCB extensions that use FFI are allowed as long as they don't expand the attack surface by introducing new system api calls that the app doesn't already use.
>>> 
>>> But then I'm not in a position to make, review, or enforce those rules.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Mark Wieder
>>> ahsoftware at gmail.com
>>> 
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